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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
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Co-Housing Columbus
Brewery District Housing
High St. Elementary Columbus City Elementary School
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Sculpture Home
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Tower of Community
Live/Work House
WeWork Tower
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Sustainable Research OSU Energy Research Building
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Sketches European Study Abroad
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01 Co-Housing Columbus Brewery District Housing Location: Columbus, Ohio Spring 2020 Senior Studio Instructor: Kay Bea Jones The proposed Co-Housing community is informed both by the physical factors of the surrounding site and by recognition that community members want to feel a part of the larger community of Columbus’ Brewery District in which they live in. The formal strategy of the project creates a strong figure ground relationship through perpendicular housing bars that allow for a variety of spaces to be formed while controlling the level of privacy experienced by the two communities. The housing development takes up 3.5 acres of a 10.9 plot of land while the remaining is proposed to be developed into a public park and additional Columbus housing. This location provides a number of amenities for the residence within a one mile radius such as Scioto Audubon Metro Park, Kroger, Cultural Arts Center, a bike path, and German Village. In addition, the surrounding community is filled with a rich history of brewers and masons, contributing to the combination of modern and historic aesthetic reflected in the brick facades. The co-housing community seamlessly embeds itself into Brewery District not only through its brick facades but by also providing a number of commercial spaces. The cohousing community invites the Columbus community in through a cafe, bakery, market, bike shop, yoga studio, flower shop, event space and more. 04
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Alvaro Siza’s seminal Quinta da Malagueira housing project in Spain
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A booming pedestrian street lined with bars and restaurants in Stockholm
Cleveland, Ohio 4th St. pedestrian street lined with first level restaurants and upper level living units.
The community’s social connection and interaction is enhanced by a linear figure-ground massing diagram that forms five distinct spaces, two of which are the pedestrian streets. As the housing bars follow a perpendicular grid creating a clear circulation flow through the project, the common house and agriculture creates a hierarchical shift in the grid.
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Site Plan
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Private Co-Housing Pedestrian Street
Commercial Pedestrian Street
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Stairwell Next to Light-well Clerestory Window Shared First Floor Entry
Clerestory Window
Shared Stair Stair Light-well
Shared Entry to Second Floor
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Second Floor Plan
First Floor Plan 800 Sqft Type A
800 Sqft Type B
1600 Sqft Unit
1600 Sqft Type B
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High St. Elementary Columbus City Elementary School Location: Columbus, Ohio Fall 2018 Junior Studio Instructor: Justin Diles High Street Elementary plays with choreographing views of the landscape and filtering views of the city through different systems. The focus of the project is to create a story between the two worlds and the children as they move throughout the building. Creating sloping and light filled hallways gives the children a sense of free exploration and imagination. The intent of the building is to create an essentialist focused school with organized traditional classrooms combined with qualities of an unschooling focus in the hallways. This is accomplished by expanding the hallways to become private study nooks and projecting out to the landscape. Requirements of the project was to experiment with masonry. The facades of the school are clad with terracotta bricks, rotated to create an animated facade while filtering the views and sunlight. The terracotta bricks are contrasted with vision and spandrel glass creating a glossy facade and opening up the views through the courtyards.
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softer lines for the clouds
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Two conditions of the site, city vs ravine, the building takes on two conditions, bar vs cluster.
Lower level
Upper level
The lower level includes the science room, a collaborative work space, and the mezzanine area for the library. The regular classrooms are connected to special classrooms by a bridge hanging over the slope.
This level contains classrooms for the older students. It holds the linear bar front facing High St. and focuses on creating space outside the classrooms for collaborative or independent work. Nooks between classes and a large multipurpose room were made for additional space.
Framing of changing views as children experience the long light filled hallways. Different opportunities to experience between city, man made courtyard, and natural ravine views.
Courtyards punch through the buildings allowing hallways to take its perimeter. Glass lined courtyards allow views to and across one wing of the building to
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Sculpture Home Live/ Work House Location: Franklinton, Ohio Fall 2018 Junior Studio Instructor: Justin Diles The task was to design a home that could function both as a live and work space in the suburbs of Columbus. The required program was two units and a shared work space. The occupation of the residence are sculptures, two owners and their two apprentices. A sense of privacy was created in the lower level by having minimal windows. The necessary natural lighting for a studio was brought in and controlled by sculptural light tunnels placed in various light-wells that pierce through the home. The light tunnels become exposed to the interior of the home creating sculptural surprises and burst of natural light as they circulate the home. The form of the project is about these large cylindrical light wells contained in a regular form. The interior walls are curved to create a sense of fluidity and movement between spaces between both units.
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Third Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
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Construction Axonometric
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Tower of Community WeWork Tower Location: Downtown Columbus, Ohio Spring 2019 Junior Studio Instructor: Mike Baumburger Partner: Alex Warner
The tower is programed to be WeWork spaces in the heart of Downtown Columbus. As WeWorking is revolutionizing the way companies work and people interact, the tower aims to strengthen those connections through an organization of communities and public centers within the building. Inspired by European cities organized with large public centers surrounded by private dwellings, the tower is similarly organized from the inside out. To encourage collaboration and comfort the tower is broken down into four communities, making the 14 story building work at a smaller, and more approachable scale. The three to four levels within a community shift and stagger creating activated atriums in each as well as visual connection throughout. Communities relationships to one another are also shifted, moving their centers across the tower providing different views and relationships to the city of Columbus. The facades erode visually connecting the tower communities and community of Columbus. The communities take unique forms, positions, and activities all differing from one another and creating an employees perfect temporary “home� or work space. The communities house different shared workspace, private offices, office suites, conference rooms, and head quarter space. 22
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Growing the tower’s city with additional communities
Community center shifted to create visual connections within
The collision between the city of Columbus and the Tower’s city is represented as eroded corners of the building facades connect them
Communities first floor center for public use Upper community levels are shared and private work spaces
Community stacked vertically
Office Organization: Public Center Private Exterior
City map with public center
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Shifting all the communities to create dynamic relationships and change
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Sustainable Research Energy Research Lab Location: Columbus, Ohio Spring 2019 Junior Studio Instructor: Mike Baumburger The proposed research lab was strongly influenced by the studios initial figure void concrete studies produced to discover different conditions and forms concrete can take. This early study inspired buildings form of rigid rectangular exterior and the series of irregular voids networking together to create the large central atrium. Connecting to all facades of the building the atrium aims to promote sustainable practices through optimal natural lighting and ventilation. The voids organize the program, pushing or pulling it from its edge. Public labs are positioned up against the atrium to be viewed from different levels of the building while private labs are pushed to the perimeter while interactive public space occupy the most light filled areas and covered terraces are apart of the voided system allowing light to enter the center. Figure void relationship is subtly continued onto the landscape through mounded bosques, carving out paths that appear to be carved from the objects that created the voids on the facades of the buildings. Wanting to create more green features in the building and connect to the park across the street, planting and vegetation were placed in the east and west voids to filter the light and atmosphere.
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3D Printed mold for concrete void
Concrete Figure
Concrete Void
Light and form studies of the network of void forming building atrium
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Layered Axon Diagram
The network of voids reaching the outside container of the building allowing the void to become filled with light
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Sketches Study Abroad Location: Western Europe May 2018 Instructor: Jaquline Gargus These sketches are from my month long European study abroad program to five countries, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Spain. We visited over 250 architectural sites and just under 40 cities. We observed and analyzed architecturally significant features of each location as well as the surrounding cultures, prompting many theory, structure, and design-based discussions. This trip was transformational in allowing me to realize the importance of preparation, precedent research, and experiencing the real-life effect spaces can have that isn’t possible from mere images.
Guggenheim, Bilbao
Throughout the trip we had sketching assignments where we were given an average of five minutes, at most fifteen. We were also given research assignments that we completed before the trip in order to present our findings to our classmates when we arrived at the site. I was selected for a research award for this trip.
Nimes Plazza, Nimes
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Schroder House, Utrecht
Villa Savoye, Poissy
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Le Vau Vicomte, Maincy
Zonnestrad, Hilversum
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Van Nelle Factory, Rotterdam
Wozoco Housing, Amsterdam
Maison Louis Carre, Southwest of Paris
Villa Cavrois, Criox
Coloma Chapel, Barcelona
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Sara Bernhardt 216.906.7655 bernhardt.49@osu.edu 4537 Liberty Rd. Cleveland, OH 44121