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Email: SkylarTKitchen@gmail.com Phone: (919) 744 - 0664 Issuu.com/skylarkitchen
education
skills
North Carolina State University
Traditional Design
Raleigh, NC 2016
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, Rhino, 3ds Max, V-Ray
Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture
Renderer, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects, ArcMaps, ArcGIS
experience Virtual Reality 2015-present
Research Assistant
Unity, PTGui, Panoweaver, Autopano Giga, Revizto, EasyPano, Google Cardboard, Occulus Rift
2016
DELTA
Part of a several person team researching the applications of virtual reality in architectural education.
Coding Java, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, processing, p5,
Army National Guard
2014-present
ruby, GitHub, Cyberduck, Atom, Terminal/ Putty
Training to lead soldiers and accomplish missions in a
Other
military manner.
MS Office(Word, Excel, PowerPoint), painting, Mac/ Window Platforms, freehand illustration
Crystal Construction
Summer 2012 & 2013
Construction Worker
honors
Worked on large commercial buildings, building foundations and working with architects. Also spent several
AIA Triangle Scholarship honorable mention
weeks in the architecture firm.
Merit based scholarship
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National Guard 113th Battalion Soldier of the Year battalion. The Best Warrior Competition recognizes Soldier who demonstrate commitment to the Army values and embody the Warrior Ethos.
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Awarded best solider of the year among 2200+ soldier
Blockfest 1st place 3
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projects teaching animal unit
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new fitness
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broadcasting station 2016
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raleigh bicycle facility
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braque museum
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charleston museum
wolf prowl
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meditation
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blockfest
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restoration
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teaching animal unit
PROJECT TYPE: Industrial STUDIO:
ARC 301
DATE: Fall
is always responding to a series of existing conditions. The
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LOCATION: NCSU
Architecture never happens in an isolated environment. It context, culture, and environment are all settings which
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influence the design of place. The agrarian structure is authentic – it is part of the land, in harmony with environment, and is a derivative of the culture of the place. The objective of the project was to create a new swine facility and education facility on the NC State veterinary college campus. The main concerns for the project are bio-security of the animals, student education,and the day-to-day activities of the swine care-takers. For the safety of the animals, the program is separated in to four elements: gestation, farrowing, finishing, and the classroom space. The buildings are 45’ apart so that airborne diseases do not transfer between them.
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1 Pathway Elevation
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A Gestation Section
B Farrowing Section
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C Finishing Section
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PROJECT TYPE: Educational/ STUDIO:
Fitness
ARC 302
DATE: Spring
2016
LOCATION: NCSU
This particular structure is responding to the program of the addition.
The program requires a dynamic space for new
fitness activities. The design gives exactly that.
Veterinary College As the visitors move through the space, they recognize the activities and dynamism embellished in the architecture. Every architectural move is given cause to an event that occurs in the structure. The rowing pool, the rock wall, the arbor. Every space gives cause to the shape of the massing. Each event generates the structure of the building.
Top Right: Rowing Pool Bottom Right: 3rd Floor New Exercise Bottom Left: 5th Floor New Exercise
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Rock Wall
Social Space
UP Multipurpose Event Space
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Security Point Lobby
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DN Rowing Entry New Exercise
Rowing Pool
Social Space
To Below
Break Area
Elevators UREC
Lobby/ Info
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To Below
1st Floor Plan
North Elevation
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East Elevation
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Section BB
audio-visualization of NCSU’s “Fight Song”
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The pattern of the terra cotta rainscreen is an
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Climbing Wall
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broadcasting station
PROJECT TYPE: Commercial STUDIO:
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In collaboration with Elizabeth Marcias, we had four weeks to design a 40,000 sqft television broadcasting station at the site
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LOCATION: Raleigh,
of our choosing. We chose the corner of W. Davie Street and
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McDowell Street because of the challenges it proposed. The site has a 15’ grade change from one side to the other. We tackled this project first by addressing the complicated program. Much of the spaces in a broadcasting station have specific technical requirements and must be addressed as a priority.
Our assessment essentially divided the building
into two elements: the office spaces and the studio spaces. The studio spaces require very controlled lighting and sound proofing as well as height requirements. We determined the most important realty on the site is at the street corner, where we put the main entry to the building. We elevated the corner lobby to contrast the slope of the site and define it as entry to our building.
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broadcasting redesign After the final critique, I felt that our project deserved another scheme. The discoveries made during the initial project served as guides for the redesign. The studio spaces are much more prominent than initially thought. Instead of hiding the studio spaces behind the office, like in the first scheme, I embraced their unique character and placed it on the street corner. The sense of entrance comes from the carved opening underneath.
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raleigh bicycle facility
PROJECT TYPE:
Public
As a promotion of commuting via bicycle in Raleigh, the city
STUDIO: 5 DATE: Fall
is adding a new bicycle parking facility to downtown.
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LOCATION: Downtown
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design project focuses on materiality, structure, site context and
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passive heating and cooling. The program for the facility requires 100 private bicycle parking spaces and 25 rental spaces with a bicycle kiosk. Also, a bike repair and information shop and some general seating. The site has a grade change of 10 feet from the bus station and the courtyard to the north. I separated the commuter bicycles to the recessed space, more hidden from passersby which allows the rental bikes to be advertised closer to the bus station. Perhaps the pedestrians waiting for their bus may consider a different method of transportation. An aluminum and fabric canopy covers the two areas. The canopy swoops down to the appropriate height to cover the commuter bikes to the north.
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Mast Sketch
Mast Iterations
Plan
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Photovoltaic Panels
Nylon Tensile Fabric
Retention Pond
Poured Concrete
Water Collection
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charleston museum
PROJECT TYPE: Museum STUDIO:
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DATE: Spring
2013
LOCATION: Charleston,
SC
DESIGN INTENTION: Create
a museum in historic Charleston
following extension analysis of the context and surrounding architectural rhythm. Through my analysis, I created a space driven by the geometry of the of it’s contexts that carves into the earth, creating a subterranean gathering area.
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2016 ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Top Left: Charleston Site Plan
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Top Right: Entrance Perspective
Bottom: Site Sectons
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06 wolf prowl
PROJECT TYPE: Design STUDIO:
ARC 402
DATE: Summer
2015
LOCATION: NCSU SIZE:
Build
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384 s.f.
ARCHITECT:
Diane Thompson, PE
MATERIAL: Concrete
foundation, welded steel brackets, PT
posts, glulam beams, reclaimed tongue-and-groove roof decking, corrugated roofing, polygal, custom-built cypress windows, reclaimed walnut siding. As park of the ten-week summer 2015 Design/ Build Studio, architecture and landscape students worked as a team to design and then build a wild animal husbandry facility for the Zoological Teaching animal unit at the college of Veterinary Medicine. The Design Development and construction process each took approximately five weeks, with some overlap in the middle. The Construction Document set was submitted to the NC State Construction office in June. Construction was complete by July 31, the day of the final review for the studio.
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painting to landform
PROJECT TYPE: Art STUDIO:
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DATE: Fall
2013
LOCATION: Georges
Braque, The Portuguese
To understand how to work with topography, we were asked to translate a two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional form. The topography was then used at the landform for our design project. The landform has compositional qualities that were studied: figure/ground, organization of elements, geometry, etc. The compositional qualities of the landform were used as a framework to decide on the design strategies for our design. To transform the paintings into a landform, we used a series of methods to identify and create depth. We used a gray scale finder to identify different values and assign an elevation to each. We then carved blue foam block to conform to the topography suggested. Textures were interpreted as areas of vegetation. We sliced the model every 1� to create a series of section cutes which were traced and transferred into an intersecting grid to eventually create a topographic map of the painting.
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Georges Braque, The Portuguese
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Inside art gallery
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restorative landscape Art therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) have the potential to be combined as a form PROJECT TYPE: Public
of PTSD therapy. Visual create coupled with EMDR are capable
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of serving two purposed at once. Research is currently being
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LOCATION: Dorthea MISSION:
done on the subject. The artwork is generated via a program-
Dix Campus, Raleigh, NC
Alleviating the aftermath of distress - Integrating
art therapy and EMDR to treat post traumatic stress.
ming language called processing, which allows users to develop interactive programs with visual output. The program is an attempt to combine the two methods of PTSD therapy. The use of the design as a template for the landscape is symbolic of the center’s mission, to alleviate mental illness.
Design generated from tracing desired path in processing
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09 meditation
PROJECT TYPE:
Industrial
STUDIO: 4 DATE: Fall
2013
LOCATION: Unspecified
The purpose of this project was to create a space for one specific activity. I chose to create the space around the act of meditation. For many religions, the act of spiritual contemplation involves many rituals. It seems fitting to create an environment specifically for these rituals. As is much religious architecture, the space is geometrically driven. The elements of the space are mainly symmetrical and easily understood. The program is divided into several different sequences: The first area is the bath for cleansing; next the shrine to pay respects to their deity; finally the terminus is the meditation space, which overlooks the serene forest.
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shrine
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PROJECT TYPE: Competition CLASS: Construction DATE: Spring
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LOCATION: NC
State Campus
Blockfest is an annual competition paid for by several masonry companies in Raleigh, NC. We had several weeks to design an 8’ by 8’ seating area using only 4 kinds of masonry bricks. We then had two hours to complete the project, including tamping the earth to make it stable. Our team of four were able to win the competition for our design as well as our construction. We won $250. The design is simply an elbow to an extension of masonry benches. We designed the seating according the most optimal ergonomic proportions.
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A radially coursed bench to serve as a comfortable resting spot. Further applications and extension of the profile allow for a continuous wall that can be bent and adjusted to fit any perimeter. 3
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13.6 degrees recline
Anthropometric Dimensions
15.5” bench 18” height
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