PAOLA BIERI Architecture Design
Portfolio
Charleston Art Institute
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Seahorse Key Research Center
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Charleston Art Institute
Charleston, South Carolina Critic: William Tilson Design 6
In Charleston, South Carolina the feeling of history is very much expressed throughout the city’s buildings and streets. Walking down the quaint roads and pathways, it’s easy for locals and tourists alike to feel as if they’ve been transported hundreds of years into the past. The use of local, natural materials in walkways and streets helps create a feeling of authenticity that is often lacking in modern cities. These streets and walkways also create detailed boundaries and edges that serve as the common thread weaving various components such as small courtyards, historic landmarks, local shops, interstitial spaces, and other public areas into one interconnected fabric.
Open Public Spaces
St. Philips Church Edge
Ground Layers Boundary
Unfolding Streets
Dynamic Sequence of Spaces
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Charleston Art Institute is located on the corner of two main roads, Cumberland Street and Church Street, with St. Phillips Church, a national historic landmark, and “The Holy City� cemetery immediately surrounding the site. The design of Charleston Art Institute both complements and alters the historical context of the site through the use of detailed apertures and the simplicity of the form itself; creating a dialogue between the past and present. The volumes are angled in opposite directions in order to capture a feeling of compression and expansion; offering a public space at the entrance of the building and dramatic interior views of the city. A tectonic approach is taken to integrate a secondary structural layer that partially envelopes the building masses. An interactive skin weaving through horizontal and vertical columns not only helps to control the quality of light and reduce heat, but also integrates the structure into the larger context of Charleston itself; woven together by its unique streets and walkways.
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Ground Floor Plan 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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Circulation
Graveyard
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Composite
Media Gallery
Modern Art Gallery
Church Street
Glass Shell
Entrance/ Plaza Sculpture Garden Coffee Shop Media Gallery Water Courtyard Lobby Modern Art Gallery Restrooms
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Third Floor
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Historic Gallery Photography Gallery Lightwell/ Elevator Projector Gallery
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Beyond the Horizon Desert: Archeology Center Critic: Levent Kara Design 4
The desert is a place that evokes an image of endless lines stretching beyond the horizon and the human mind, where the sand, wind, sun, and burning sky create a sense of becoming one. Boundaries advance and recede through a collection of shifting geographic dunes, molded by the pushing and pulling forces of the wind. Within the composition, a dynamic sequence of experiences emerges from the layered ground planes and walls that rise and fold. The balanced arrangement of spaces and columns generates a sense of order and harmony among the interior elements while unexpected spaces emerge from folding planes that rise and fall to create subterranean refuge in such extreme conditions. By day the volume becomes an oasis of shade and tranquility, while by night it becomes a luminous beacon symbolizing life in a sea of sand.
Horizontal Typology
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Meditation
Ground
Water Color Drawing
Folding
Pushing/Pulling Forces
Top View Model
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Ground Floor Plan 1. Entrance 2. Laboratories 3. Classrooms 4. Dinning area 5. Meditation Gardens
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Classrooms
Laboratories
Greenhouse
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Seahorse Key Research Center Seahorse Key, Florida Critic: Stephen Belton Design 5 This project examines the fundamental relationship between landscape, memory, and the built environment. Through a variety of unique experiences, the user attaches specific emotions that transcend each intersection of landscape, structure, and perception; and it is during these emotional experiences that lasting memories are formed. This project hopes to create an emotional experience for the user through the implementation of a variety of textures, views, functional elements, and natural lighting. The rising and falling elevation of the island is reflected in the structure by an ascending water garden composed of articulated steps leading to a museum entrance, which then descends into a central garden with two pools for water collection and marine research.
Wood Panel Screen
Museum of Natural History Aquatic Eco System
Dock
Marine Laboratory
The skin is constructed of an all natural material creating several layers of structural beams, insulated glass, and thin punctured wood. The gaps in the wooden screen create a semi-transparent wall that filters daylight and draws the surrounding landscape into the interior. The screen panels and main staircase are shaped to follow the contours of the terrain; with the stairs creating a dynamic sense of rhythmic movement for the user by the shadow patterns projected from the screens.
Ground Floor Plan
Wood Panel Screen
Existing Lighthouse Building
Administrative Housing
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Marine Laboratory
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North Elevation
Analytical Site Drawing
Museum of Natural History
Administrative Housing
South Elevation
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Little Dolphin Kindergarten Little Havana, Florida Critic: Giancarlo Mazzanti Design 8 Little Havana contains a vibrant Hispanic community with unique characteristics and culture. Calle Ocho is one of the main streets in Little Havana, composed of a sequence of pockets within the district’s fabric that hold a variety of markets, authentic restaurants, open coffee shops, colorful murals, and pulsating music; all of which contribute to a fertile environment for social interaction to occur. This area sets the most basic foundation for early childhood development and it is important for families, schools, and educators to work together to help young children develop and acquire new knowledge through positive interactions with their surroundings. The school is developed as a learning environment for children to draw out meanings from the unfolding structure. The children begin to learn in an interactive manner through a collection of exciting experiences that define a variety of rhythms, systems, textures, and sounds. They develop an understanding of scale, materials, light, and color by exploring their own identity and perception of time and space in a nurturing environment.
Ahh!! This spaceship is going to the moon. The firefightersHello are on a mission.
Call me captain of this ship! Look at Look at me I can me Fly!I can Fly!!
They will never find me here. Yaa!! Me Strong. I can separate these shapes. Hide
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Aquaponics Cycle System
Plan Configuration
Square Form, holds regularity with its simple geometry; easily define by children with its precise scale and proportion.
Axis line, creates symmetry giving a sense of direction to the entrance. Experiencing the use of the spaces within the volume of the school.
Core, The entrance opens onto the center of the school where the most interaction occurs , encouraging forward motion to emerging spaces created for pauses and viewing the children at all time.
Modular System, A unifying movement is then used by creating a pattern of repetition through a system of modules that are linked together through one inhabitant Eco-roof.
The Aquaponics garden is a major part of the Kindergarten design. It represents the idea of natural spaces and teaches children the principles of interconnected ecosystems, agriculture, and responsibility through the development and maintenance of a small-scale aquaculture fish-farming system integrated with hydroponic plant production. The Innovative Living Laboratory will fuel young students’ innate curiosity to explore, touch, and analyze plant and animal life. Not only will they learn about aquatic science and fish nutrition, they will internalize principles of water conservation, sustainable production, ecosystems, and how to connect them.
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Site Floor Plan 1. Infant Room 2.Toddler Classroom 3. Preschool Classroom ( 2 ½ – 3 year olds) 4. Preschool Classroom (4-5 year olds) 5. Outdoor Terrace 6. Cafeteria/ Kitchen 7. Administration 8. Infirmary 9. Indoor Gym 10. Music Room 11. Art Room 12. Playground Area 13. Playful Ramp 13. Eco-Roof 14. Ecological Riverwalk/ Water Gardens
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Outdoor Terrace Render The outdoor terraces work as open public spaces for teacher and student interaction to occur. The folded roof creates a light wooded canopy overhead to the first floor, filtering light and providing a shaded area; Emphasizing on sustainability and energy consumption with a strategy based on three central themes: energy, indoor climate and materials.
Interior Classroom Render The second floor volume creates an overhang condition to the classroom; Shifting the scale of the room by becoming a more comfortable space for the children to engage on reading activities while staying in place.
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1. Infant Room 2. Toddler Classroom 3. Preschool Classroom ( 2 ½ – 3 year olds) 4. Preschool Classroom (4-5 year olds) 5. Outdoor Terrace 6. Cafeteria/ Kitchen 7. Administration 8. Infirmary 9. Indoor Gym 10. Music Room 11. Art Room 12. Playground Area 13. Playful Ramp 13. Eco-Roof
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Constructing Community
Skin
New York City, NY Design Partner: Philip Panzarella Critic: Bradley Walters Design 7
Skyline Engagement
Networking Field- The Metropolis is a constructed field, constituted of a myriad layers, construction, and experiences. Stan Allen described the field as a collective, “moving from the one to the many.. From objects to field.” New York City is a field that operates synergistically and serendipitously. Superimposed layers create unforeseen opportunities and interactions. “Field Conditions treat constraints as opportunity” (Stan Allen). A definitely body within this network is a vehicle of experience that itself is another layer within the system. It is the experience and the experienced. The interaction between bodies and objects become a machine that needs all its parts to work together as a network bringing the city to life by its daily unexpected interactions.
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TOWERS IN THE PARK Porous edge allows for movement green spaces, connection to nature Monoprogrammatic,limits experience buildings disconnect from the city.
Street Engagement
URBAN BLOCK Solid edge, maintains city scale/grid Poly programmatic, mixing of people Non-porous block, no internal connection Lack of green Space, removal of nature
INTEGRATED PROPOSAL Tower stacked on porous slab, containing mixed programming. Porous block allows for connections to city as well as variety of Internal experiences, while maintain street edge. Central Void allows for green space and visual connection to the highline
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Site Expansion
Slab and Tower Parti
The form of the project is four residential towers floating over a porous, stratified block allowing the city to penetrate and influence the block. The local art community, the residents, and the city converge on the block all occupying public spaces. There are also several semi-private spaces for the residents suspended throughout. The project creates new possibilities for experiences to change from something mundane to something novel.
10th Avenue
Highline Interaction
11th Avenue
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•Typical Residential • All units enclosed
•Shift units outside of • Insert central com enclosure, engages city munity space • Creates exterior space • Skin creates Private for each unit. vs. Public inhabitation
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SPATIAL MANIFESTION
EXPERIANTIAL MANIFESTION
Relationships of Bodies in Space- Interactions and experiences between people in an urban setting are frequent and diverse. The surrounding architecture plays a role in how these interactions form, sustain, and dissipate. Therefore, architecture, specifically housing, should encourage social interaction as well as a sense of community. Investigating the relationships between bodies in space allows experience to be constructed, thus activating space beyond its physical form. A series of constructed experiences creates a narrative in which the occupant and the architecture cultivate a symbiotic relationship, one affecting the other, one testing the other. With this approach space can begin to play a larger societal role in which it encourages experiences, dialogue, and social interaction.
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Art Work Title: Dreams Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas
Title: Colombian Landscape Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Title: Refreshing Medium: Pencil Drawing
Title: Fish on the Run Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas
Title: Moon & Sun Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas
Sculptures
Title: Angelic with a Sprinkle Wicked Medium: Plaster Cast and melted Crayons
Title: Ransom Medium: Plaster Cast
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Photography Work
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Other Works
Gainesville Urban Infill Dance Studio Design 6
Gainesville Single Family Housing Design 5
Tower Pink Floyd School of Music Design 4
NYC Solas Hotel Vertical Network Design 7
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Curriculum Vitae Education University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. (May 2007- May 2012) Bachelors of Design with a major in Architecture Santa Fe College, Gainesville, FL. (May 2005- May 2007) A.A. Interior Design Experience Volunteer UF Project Makeover , Gainesville FL. February 2013 Teaching Assistance Architectural Design I: University of Florida Professor Mark McGlothlin (January 2012)- (May 2012) Architect Drafter Architect William Bieri, Bogota, Colombia (May 2011) – (August 2011) Sales Associate The Watch Station, Gainesville FL. (August 2006 – May 2009)
Skills
Rhino V Ray Auto CAD Photoshop Adobe CS5 Microsoft Office Form Z SketchUp Revit
To Be Continued.....
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