Architecture and Visual Arts
Portfolio Rachel Staley
Architecture
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Cleo Rogers Memorial Library Extension
Musuem of the Unkown Artist
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Urban Canopy Farmer’s Market
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West Bottoms Ensemble
M.U.D.E.C. Student Center
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The Wickham House Arts and Craft Study
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Visual Arts
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Jazz Study
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Charcoal Drawings
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Characters
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Cleo Rogers Memorial Library Architecture Archive Extension Graduate Studio Indiana University, Columbus, IN Fall 2019 Project Duration: 10 weeks
The addition to The Cleo Rogers Memorial Library is an exploration of space and form. This exploration started with the analysis of the existing spaces and forms found in the library and using their qualities to inspire the space and form of the new building. The programmatic elements of the addition can be characterized through scattered galleries, solid containers, transparent corridors and carved space.
Two-dimensional graphite drawings of the library’s plan, elevation, and section, as an exploration of the spaces found in the building. The graphite medium offers a way to suggest deeper space or atmosphere within the shapes. In these drawings, the structure of the library becomes a void, and breaks up the space into separate elements, each with their own personality. These shapes are then translated into the third dimension at five different scales (right).
Cleo Rogers Memorial LIbrary Analysis
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Existing Library
Reading Room
Scattered Galleries
Archives
The architectural archive and reading room extension are housed in a solid container, while the circulation surrounding those spaces are a series of transparent corridors. There are moments of solidity in those corridors that is meant for the display of artwork, and acts as a fragmented gallery that guides a library visitor through the space.
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
First the space or void of the extension design was modeled so the form could be produced
urban canopy Columbus Farmer's Market Graduate Studio Indiana University, Columbus, IN Fall 2019 Project Duration: 6 weeks
The Urban Canopy is a covered area meant to host the Columbus Seasonal Farmer’s Market, as well as other public events for the community. It is situated between the Cummins Corporate Office building and Mill Race Park—two important yet contrasting landmarks in the city of Columbus. The edges of this urban canopy mimic the strong urban grid found in Columbus and turns the order of that grid into disorder as it reaches the center. The concave and convex shapes that vertically derail from the grid mimic the language found in traditional marketplaces around the world. After studying a handful of historic marketplaces, I have defined a market as a series of paths and obstacles. The canopy reflects paths and obstacles from above as a guide for vendors to set up their booths in order to encourage the optimal sense of wandering throughout the farmer’s market. The canopy itself is comprised of six modules that create a spectrum from “linear to round” as a metaphor from “order to disorder” while simultaneously creating either a path or obstacle for the market goer to inhabit or avoid.
Kansas City River Market Diagram
Leadenhall Market Section Diagram
The concave and convex shapes that vertically derail from the grid mimic the language found in traditional marketplaces around the world.
Diagram of Farmers Market Booth
Inverted Farmers Market
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
The edges of this urban canopy mimic the strong urban grid found in Columbus and turns the order of that grid into disorder as it reaches the center. PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
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MODULE AXON STUDY
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The West Bottoms Ensemble A Master Plan Project Collaboration: Andrew Porten and Evan Warder Miami University, Oxford, OH Senior Studio Fall 2018 Project Duration: 1 Semester
Our journey started on a blistering July day in Kansas City. We faced a large site, close to 2 square miles in area. The abandoned and isolated West Bottoms district of Kansas City posed a challenge for the three of us. Determined to create a new master plan for this disenchanting expanse of land, we started by creating guidelines for ourselves as designers. We were urban planners on a mission, to spread the doctrine we had created to revitalize the American city. We were going to create a conversation between man and building that couldn’t be ignored. But still so many questions remained unanswered. How were we going to start this conversation? What exactly did we want to say? That night we stumbled upon the most interesting conversation to ever take place in Kansas City, it was an exchange between four musicians in a jazz club, the Green Lady; and it inspired us to create a new type of design entirely.
Jazz as a conversation
The Driving Element An element that initiates the conversations and creates framework and rhythm.
The Pacing Element An element that creates significant moments and regulates conversation.
The Promoting The Performing Element Element An element that provides context to the other elements.
conversation as composition
An element that defines the composition and interprets the framework and rhythm.
Masterplan as composition
The Driving Element:
Infrastructure (roads, rail lines, and existing conditions)
The Pacing Element:
Public Spaces (Parks, open areas designed for public use)
The Promoting
Neighborhood (Mixed use, housing, schools, small stores, anything that promotes the performing element)
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The Performing Element:
Industry spaces (in this case: offices, labs, making spaces that contribute to the experimentation of new building design and construction.
City Block as Composition
While they all play an important role in the master plan, each section is a composition within itself and contain elements to facilitate its own unique conversation.
Transitions Connecting people while connecting places
Neighborhood Experience the push and pull of daily life
Industry Work process often involves meandering and interruption
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Industrial Complex as a Composition
Industry DRIVING ELEMENT: Covered Walkways PACING ELEMENT: Elevated Walkways PROMOTING ELEMENT: Retail Space PERFORMING ELEMENT: Industry Space
The West Bottoms as a series of conversations
Neighborhood DRIVING ELEMENT: Alley PACING ELEMENT: Framing PROMOTING ELEMENT: Apartment PERFORMING ELEMENT: Mixed Use
Transition DRIVING ELEMENT: Street scape PACING ELEMENT: Sidewalks and Trusses PROMOTING ELEMENT: Enclosed Courtyards PERFORMING ELEMENT: Larger open space
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Museum of the unknown artsist Folk Art Museum Studio Productive Anachronism Miami University, Oxford, OH Spring 2019 Project Duration: 8 weeks
This is a museum that houses Folk Art in it’s many forms. Folk Art is commonly defined as art created by self-taught artists or those otherwise “untrained” in the fine arts. Folk Art became popularized because of the people that collected it, not the artists themselves. The Museum of the Unknown Artist exists to celebrate the unsung heroes of Folk Art and their contributions to the preservation of culture. In order to appreciate the value of Folk Art, methods of creating “minor” artwork were used as a process of designing. Specifically crafts that are primarily associated with women.
Initial site analysis, Focus on texture of site, and the condemned Anne Louise Inn: initially a Women’s boarding house, currently a halfway house for victims of domestic abuse.
Concept relief of Folk Art Museum: Defined boxes to house exhibition space, blanketed in the white folds of an unfinished quilt.
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Hearth Exhibit A permanent Exhibit designed for the museum to display examples of Folk Art in their natural habitat: a home or antique shop, overcrowded with knick-knacks and trinquets of varying value. All of the objects will be blacked out--a symbol of hidden identity of the origin of cultural objects throughout time. The pieces on display will be highlighted, as they will be in full color and scattered around the dark room.
M.u.d.e.c. Student Center The Abbey Project Collaboration: Graciela Hart Miami University, Differdange, Luxembourg Junior Year Studio Fall 2017 Project Duration: 8 weeks
As the Miami University Luxembourg Campus grows, their search for a new student center has landed in the core of Differdange, a small and historic town in Luxembourg that sits on the French border. The site, currently used as an assisted living community, once existed as a Cistercian Abbey and operated as the heart of Differdange for centuries. As students living and studying in Differdange, we were challenged to create a new center to be shared between Miami students and locals. Using delicate square proportions and minimal ornamentation, we wanted to acknowledge the Cistercian Monk’s way of life, and encourage MUDEC students to reflect on the history of the old abbey.
Manipulation of forms found in traditional Cistercian abbeys in medieval Europe.
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Plans a. Existing Abbey; Classrooms & Offices b. Courtyard c. Lobby, Reception, Public Lounge d. Breezeway e. Office f. Bathroom g. Caffeteria h. Entry and gallery i. Auditorium j. Student Lounge k. Student Kitchen
The Wickham house An exploration in arts and crafts Project Collaboration: Jena Drago and Olivia Learly Miami University, Oxford, OH ARC 222 Spring 2017 Project Duration: 2 weeks
The year is 1899.
Our team has been commissioned by the Wickham Family to design their new townhome in the Bloomsbury district of London. Like most of our contemporaries, we have been inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement sweeping across England. We draw inspiration from the likes of William Morris and Phillip Webb using John Ruskin’s seven lamps of architecture as our guide. We granted the Wickhams generous space for their growing family and ample room for their staff. As for ornamentation, we believe that beauty lies within an object’s craft; we worked hard to create unique wallpaper designs, wood paneling, and stained glass.
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Ground Floor
First Floor
Second Floor
We are on a mission in the name of arts and crafts Guests are recieved by an elegant foyer, boasting of special parquet floors, hand crafted iron lamps, and the grand stair. Light is generously filtered through stained glass windows, to create exciting light refractions on the walls. Once through the door, look up to catch a glimpse of the smartly stocked library shelves peeking from behind the banister above. Mrs. Wickham takes her guests into the drawing room, while Mr. Wickham enjoys his company in the smoke lounge.
Bring Grand staircases back into style
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Richly colored wallpaper with natural patterns are essential to the arts and crafts style. The handcrafted hardwoood tiles and custom lighting really celebrate the craftsman.
VISUAL ART WORK
CHARCOAL DRAWINGS Fall 2019
Jazz Study
My interest in jazz began with a series of napkin sketches from a night out in a jazz club. It slowly morphed into a wild architecture project, but I continued my jazzy doodles on the side...
A synesthetic Evolution
First diagram drawn by Evan Warder This started (top left) as a collaborative excersize to diagram the relationship between instruments of a jazz quartet. I wanted to know what our analysis of jazz could look like in order to translate it into architecture. Eventually the diagrams inspired a more emotive form in watercolor and ink.
characters watercolor and ink on paper
SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP Watercolor and graphite on paper 4”x6” 3 part series
Rachel Staley rachstal@iu.edu (407)-538-0294