Samantha A. E. Hubbard Design Portfolio
B.A. Architceture | University of New Mexico SA + P Curriculum Vitae
EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
STOSS Landscape Urbanism Boston, MA
Master of Landscap
Externship | full-time | 01. 2024
University of Virginia
University of Virginia School of Architecture Charlottesville, VA Student Instructing Assistant | MLA Foundation Studio I + EcoTech II | Fall 2023, Spring 2024 Student Association of Landscape Architects| Social Co-Chair | Fall 2023, Spring 2024
07. 2022 - present
Bachelor of Arts in
University of New Me 08. 2017 - 05. 2021
SHIFTSPACE Design Philadelphia, PA Architectural Designer | full-time | 09. 2021 - present Project architect coordinating various cultural, commercial, and residential projects. Assisting in concept and design development, project management, graphic communications, architectural drawing, 3D modeling, and marketing outreach + coordination. Clients include The National Portrait Gallery, Atelier FAS, Rebuild By Design, and Philadelphia Parks and Rec.
Diploma in general
Architectural Intern | full-time |06. 2021 - 09.2021 Surveying, designing, drawing, documenting, and modeling various residential and commercial projects. Assisted in concept development for a design proposal of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with DIGSAU, DLAND Studio, and various consulting
Academic departm
groups.
Dean’s List
The ecoMOD Project + Lobo Rainforest NSF I-Corps Albuquerque, NM Entrepreneurial Lead | volunteer | 10. 2020 - 12. 2020 Researched existing and potential prefabricated home markets across the United States for potentail commercialization of past, present, and future ecoMOD houses.
Habitat for Humanity + University of New Mexico ecoMOD Albuquerque,NM Project Manager | volunteer | 08. 2020 - 11. 2020 Construction and project management for off-site construction of ecoMOD7.
Upper Dublin High S
HONORS + AW
09. 2013 - 06. 2017
University of Virginia
University of New Me
Swimming + Divin
University of New Me
Amigo Scholarship
University of New Me
CJ Martin Memori
Fort Washington Swi
SOFTWARE + SKILLS Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Photoshop | Revit
NISCA Academic
Upper Dublin High S
Adobe InDesign | Rhino3D | AutoCAD | ArcGIS Laser Cutter | Drafting | Model Making
Mike Kennedy Coa
Design + Concept Development | Design-Thinking
Upper Dublin Aquati
Samantha A. E. Hubbard https://www.linkedin.com/in/hubbardsamantha/ samie.hubbs@gmail.com (215) 390 -0902
PORTFOLIO + OTHER WORKS
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a School of Architecture Charlottesville, VA
https://issuu.com/samhubbard
REVIEWS, invited
n Architecture | Cum Laude
The United States-Mexico Border as... | Cesar A. Lopez
exico SA + P Albuquerque, NM
University of New Mexico SA + P. Fall 2021.
INTERESTS
l studies | 4.1 GPA
School Fort Washington, PA
WARDS
mental award + additional merit
a 2022 - 2025
exico 2018 - 2021
ng Mountain West All-Conference + Varsity Letter
Growing up in Southeastern Pennsylvania, within the confluence of varying rural, suburban, industrial, and urban conditions, I became fascinated with the design of the built environment and how it determines our behavior, mentality, and quality of life. I strive to consider and explore new forms of design and urbanism by questioning how my work will impact the quality of human and non-human lives within the existing urban ecology. Interests include placemaking, brownfield development, LID stormwater infrastrucutre, community stewardship, and urban psychology. In my free time, I enjoy reading, photography, hiking, swimming, and traveling.
exico 2018
PUBLICATIONS + EXHIBITIONS
p + additional academic merit award
University of Pennsylvania. 2021.
exico 8. 2017 - 5. 2021
ial Award + Scholarship
Green New Deal Superstudio, Regenerative Reuse | JSTOR
Trace: “Practicing” no. 3, Cultivation | school magazine University of New Mexico SA + P. 2020.
im + Tennis Club 7. 2017 The Architectural Question: A Wunderkammer, Living Architecture
All-American + Tri-captain + 4x Varsity Letter
@thearchitecturalquestion | Instagram exhibition
School 9. 2013 - 3. 2017
University of New Mexico SA + P. 2020. Curated by: Yang Yang
aches’ Award + Scholarship
ic Club 3. 2017
CONTENTS
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Regenerative reuse
Tröst
The Beautiful and the Dammed
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Komorebi
Mindfulness
Enduring
Relationships between naturally occuring drainages, infrastructure, parks and concretized arroyos throughout Albuquerque.
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Regenerative Reuse
Stormwater Park | Albuquerque, NM
Project completed under Green New Deal National Superstudio guidelines.
A lbuquerque employs a robust network for
stormwater management. With 69 miles of channels, 9 miles of underground drainages, 7 miles of dikes and diversions, 35 dams, and various debris capture stations, the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority (AMAFCA) aims to control and divert floodwaters as they move through the city. Though efficient, this framework 1) speeds up water, limiting groundwater recharge; 2) provides miles of impervious surface for invisible pollutants to collect; 3) increases urban heat island effect (UHIE); and, 4) serves as uninviting and underdeveloped public recreational corridors. Concretized arroyos contain floodwaters and channel ephemeral streams through indistinguishable and inhospitable landscapes, severing the city from its water. Regenerative Reuse connects the city with its hydrologic cycle by hybridizing channels and reviving land along the Arroyo de Domingo Baca. Spring 2021 Individual Work University of New Mexico Instructors: Kathleen Kambic + Katya Crawford ARCH 402/LA 402: Urban Typology LA Design Studio II
North Divers
primary
bike + w
secondary
35’ x Potential Intervention Zones
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gabion ter
Arroyo de Do
Bioswale Detail
Terraced Detail
sion Channel
existing paths
y water canal
walking path parklet
y water canal
existing drainages
x 75’ RV plot
gabion bridge bioswale
proposed drainages + canals
terraced park
rraced arroyo
omingo Baca
Site Plan
At the intersection of the Arroyo de Domingo Baca and the North Diversion channel, the ground plane will be torn and stretched to make new space for water, people, and wildlife alike. By redefining the genus loci of this over-engineered channel, uninviting RV lot, and other potential sites throughout the city, Regenerative Reuse unpacks Albuquerque’s relationship to water, allowing visitors to understand the importance of natural processes and cohabitation in urban ecology.
Waterfront bike + walking paths.
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Tröst
Student Refugee Affordable Housing | Stockholm, Sweden
From 2012 to 2015, Sweden accepted roughly
40,000 refugees per year. Numbers increased during the crisis in 2015, and 162,877 asylum seekers entered Sweden that year alone. Though Sweden, and the city of Stockholm, have become a new home to hundreds of thousands of refugees, they struggle to assimilate to life in Sweden. University students have had a uniquely challenging transition into the Swedish education system and culture. In Swedish, tröst is a noun meaning solace and comfort. Many refugees need safe spaces to start their new lives. With this in mind, the Tröst community provides the right learning tools, asylum resources, and social environments for refugee students to have a comfortable transition into the City of Stockholm.
Spring 2020 Individual Work University of New Mexico Instructor: Clare Cardinal-Pett ARCH 302: Architectural Design IV
The 1.5-acre site sits near more than 20 uni colleges in Stockholm. It is also convenientl one of the city’s multi-lane bicycle “commute lowing students to commute to their schools minutes.
Integrated bike and walking paths encoura to live active and outdoor lifestyles. The com ter and attached sauna provide residents wi for academic success, assistance in obtaining tus, and smooth assimilation into the Swed
Site, commuter bike lanes, proposed sites, and surrounding universities
Allowing this community to serve multiple lo provide students with enhanced resources f success, healthier lifestyles, and assistance in cated and stressful asylum process.
Traditional Syrian architecture stresses modesty and privacy while Scandinavian culture centralizes around a connection to nature, comfort, and simplicity. Together, these cultures combine the dichotomies of safety and exposure, privacy and togetherness, and concealed and opened to create spaces of comfort, modesty, and naturality.
Syrian Courtyard House
Scandinavian House
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Interior section of two-story unit
Pueblo de Cochiti + Cochiti Dam
Relationships between the Rio Grande, New Mexico Indian Reservations, the Rio Grande River Basin, and Dams + Diversions.
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The Beautiful and the Dammed
Infrastructural + Ecological Analysis | Pueblo de Cochiti, NM
Though irrigation is necessary for survival in the des-
ert, decades of over-engineered dams and diversions have marginalized many of New Mexico’s pueblo communities. Since its conception in 1956, the Cochiti Dam and Lake have left the Pueblo of Cochiti broken. As the symbiotic relationship between the people and land weakens, both are fighting for survival. The Rio Grande is often a slow trickle through southern valleys as Cottonwood bosques and wildlife diminish. The Pueblo of Cochiti has lost the ability to cultivate remaining lands, cutting ties to traditional ways of life, and have lost access to sacred lands. As the river goes extinct, so too does the culture of the Pueblo of Cochiti. The Beautiful and the Dammed unearths injustices against and infringements upon the Rio Grande and Pueblo of Cochiti resulting from the desecrating construction and geographically opportunistic developments of Cochiti Dam, Cochiti Lake, and the Town of Cochiti Lake.
Spring 2021 Individual Work University of New Mexico Instructor: Cesar A. Lopez ARCH 462: Representation As Action
In 1994, the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow was classified as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It now exists in only 5% of its natural habitat. The fish has gone extinct in the Pecos River and has disappeared south of Elephant Butte Reservoir, where the Rio Grande often runs dry. The depleting Silvery Minnow population has been directly linked to the artificial modificationsandalterationstotheRioGrandeoverthepastcentury.
When the waters of the Rio Grande flowed undisturbed,theRioGrandeCottonwoodthrived inthevaryingfloodconditions.Withalifespanof 100years,themagnificenttreesrequireflooding tosurviveandgerminate.Asfloodcontrolefforts persistalongtheriver,thecottonwoodsaredying off. Most cottonwoods within the Middle Rio Grande Valley are nearing 80 years of age and have not germinated due to alterations in river flows and longstanding drought. Over the next 20years,withcontinueddroughtandirrigation, the bosques of cottonwoods that line the Rio Grande from Cochiti to Belen could disappear.
From Indian relocation efforts in th Dam and Lake in 1956, and wate Pueblo of Cochiti continually fights f environmental survival. Once a pre the construction of Cochiti Lake agricultural lands, destroyed traditio the ecosystems within and around worship cherished by the Pueblos broughtnewproblemsandlawsuitsa 615 acres of remaining farmland a the Pueblo to abandon their rura the Corps eventually installed a 1 damaging native lands, seepage f
In 1960, Congress authorized the con the Flood Control Act. From 196 Engineers built Cochiti Dam and L 50,000acresoflandownedbythePue infightingthedam’sconstruction,the portionofreveredlandandancientb obligedandflaggedthelandsthatwe construction,thoselandswerethefirs Corpsarguedthatitwastheonlyplace function.The various pueblos throug astheysawtheirancestralandnative
he 1930s, the conception of Cochiti er disputes continuing today, the for its cultural, social, economic, and edominantly agrarian community, e decimated nearly all available onal pueblo summer homes, altered d the river, and desecrated places of of New Mexico. Post-construction asseepagefromthedamwaterlogged and 250 acres of bosque, causing al way of life completely. Though 17-acre drainage system, further from earthen the dam continues.
nstruction of the Cochiti dam under 65 - 1975 the U.S. Army Corps of Lake, encroaching on 11,000 of the ebloofCochiti.Acceptingtheirdefeat ePuebloaskedtheCorpstoleaveone burialgroundsuntouched.TheCorps eretoremainintact.Onthefirstdayof sttobedynamitedandexcavated.The ewheretheoutletworkscouldviably ghout New Mexico were devastated elandsdemolishedbeforetheireyes.
(Referred to as“the Corps”)
Initially, under Public Law 86-645, the reservoir was permitted as part of the Middle Rio Grande project solely for flood and sediment control, not permanent storage, until the idea for the Town of Cochiti Lake was born. Developers loved Cochitibecauseofitscentrallocationwithin the“GoldenTriangle”of Los Alamos, Santa Fe,andAlbuquerque.Theyplannedforthe reservoirtobecomeavacationspotofhiking trails,campgrounds,andapermanentnonCochiti community of 40,000 people west of the lake. In 1964, Public Law 88-293 was amended to authorize a 50,000 acrefoot“permanent pool for fish and wildlife andrecreationpurposes.”As99-yearmaster leases for the town“with all the amenities of a seven-day weekend” on half of the reservation became realized, the Pueblo found themselves buying leases for their land to limit the size of the non-Native town encroaching on their reservation.
Bookshelf + roof canopy interactions.
Biography chinju no mori.
Park, scriptorium, library, and Chinju no Mori connections.
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Komorebi
National Library of Biography + Chinju no Mori | Albuquerque, NM
Japanese forestry is grounded in belief that a for-
est is sacred and spiritual. A Chinju no Mori is a sacred forest surrounding a shrine, signifying beliefs that trees transport spirits back to Earth. The National Library of Biography is a shrine to the 824,000 lives lost in the U.S. during the Coronavirus pandemic. Home to the biographies of those passed, the library is a Chinju no Mori of books, allowing spirits to tell their stories and connect with those on Earth. Shinrin yoku is the practice of submitting to your senses and allowing your body to guide you through nature. Listen to the wind through the leaves, smell the plants and soil, be present, and connect with nature. In the library of unacessible books, people are encouraged to listen to the stories playing within various audio zones and follow the komorebi, sunlight filtering through the leaves and fragmented roof canopy. When patrons let their senses guide them, they will begin to understand the memorial’s spiritual significance. Fall 2020 Individual Work University of New Mexico Instructor: Karen King ARCH 401: Architectural Design V
Chinju no Mori Plan
Bicycle Infrastructure
Land Use
Air Pollution
Prevailing Winds
The site for the National Library of Biography, currently a UNM Transportation parking lot with adjacent vacant land is a 24-acre underutilized neglected urban heat island. At the intersection of two of the busiest streets in the city, the lot increases temperatures, hosts invisible pollutants, and serves as a barren and uninviting landscape, limiting accessibility and safety in the surrounding community. The Chinju no Mori surrounding the National Library of Biography serves as a noise barrier, carbon sink, and verdant haven for humans, animals and spirits alike. With community, accessibility, and empathy in mind, the native forest features a lending library, pedestrian and bicycle access points and paths, and unconditional access to a natural environment.
Urban Forest
Tree Canopy/Urban Heat Islands
Meditation pod on display on the UNM main campus paracord wood
canvas
Round lashing joint
metal hinges
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Mindfulness
Portable Meditation Pod | University of New Mexico
Mindfulness is the psychological pro-
cess of purposely bringing one’s attention to experiences occurring in the present moment without judgment. This style of meditation encourages practice during all times of the day in both public and private. Using minimum resources to create a space for optimal meditation, the inspiration for this project was rooted in collapsible shelters and primitive construction methods. The full-scale meditation pod featured a round lashing joint at its apex and hinges on either side of the base allowing the structure to be collapsed and transported. Mindfulness was a design-build project done in collaboration with classmate Anthony Hernandez. The final product was displayed on campus at The University of New Mexico in the fall of 2019.
Fall 2019 Partner Project University of New Mexico Instructor: Alexander Maller ARCH 301: Architectural Design III
Model on display in George Pearl Hall at the University of New Mexico.
Latticework
k detail drawing
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Enduring
Concept Pavilion
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino ex-
plores culture, time, memory, and death through vivid descriptions of various fictitious cities visited by Marco Polo. This pavilion is an interpretation of Zora, “a city that no one, having seen it, can forget.” With regulating lines and echoing latticework, “Zora’s secret lies in the way your gaze runs over patterns... as in a musical score where not a note can be altered or displaced.”
Fall 2017 Individual Work University of New Mexico Instructor: Huang Banh ARCH 111: Intro to Architectural Graphics
Samantha A. E. Hubbard B.A. Architecture | UNM SA + P samie.hubbs@gmail.com