STEPHANIE DENNY PORTFOLIO
STEPHANIE DENNY PORTFOLIO
RESUME Education
University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign
August 2012 – May 2014
Masters of Architecture – Structures Option
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
GPA: 3.64
August 2008 – May 2012
Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies
Work Experience
Teaching Assistant at the University of Illinois
Major GPA: 3.42
August 2012 - Current
Teaching Arch 451(Theory and Design of Steel and Timber) and Arch 452 (Theory of Reinforced Concrete) Provide a warm and encouraging environment in which the students are able to grow physically, emotionally, and mentally Assist the students on assignments; Grade the completed materials; Ocasionally lead the days lesson plan Record scores of all graded material
University of Illinois Facilities and Services May 2012 - December 2012 Drafted AutoCAD drawings of the campus building’s plumbing plans Organized schedules of dye testing the drains that were not specifically marked on the documents Verified that all drains were working and leading to the correct locations Traveled on site visits of the buildings to locate and search for storm and sewage drains Rockford Park District – Sand Park Pool May 2010 - August 2010 Received Rookie of the year in the Rockford Park District Aquatics division for customer service Worked at the front desk and assisted with any needs that arose Answered phones and directed calls Operated the register at the entrance and concessions, gave orders and interacted with customers
Skills
Computer Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, Rhinocerous, SAP2000, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, C4D, Google SketchUp, Microsoft Office Products
Awards
Graduate Award for Design Excellence Nomination Chicago Prize Architecture Studio Award Nomination Critical Mass People’s Choice Award for Graduate Work: Second Place
Fall 2012 & Fall 2013 Fall 2012 Fall 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Urban Infill
Screening Chicago
High Speed Rail
Franklin Point
Fl[ex]pansion
Models
Champaign, IL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Model Building
Spring 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2012
Spring 2013
Fall 2013
2009 - 2013
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Pages 42 - 55
Pages 60 - 61
Champaign, IL
URBAN INFILL
• Group Project Media Date • Revit • Spring 2011 • AutoCAD Duration • Illustrator • 10 week project • Photoshop Group Members • Indesign • Lydia McGuire • Sketchup • Michelle Monson • Rhino • Jessica Thelen Project Description • We were tasked with designing an infill mixed use building located in downtown Champaign, IL . Our vision was to help transform downtown Champaign into an urban oasis, integrating necessary retail and residential elements. Our design includes a grocery store on the first floor, a restaurant on the roof, and apartments between, all helping to increase the walkability of the area. The screen used on the facade is to shade the south side while also contributing to the privacy of the apartments facing the road. These shading systems are mobile for any apartment with a south facing balcony, allowing the tenant to open or close their space to the elements as needed.The building, being an infill project, had issues with getting light into the apartment interiors. Using an interior atrium space that goes through the building all the way to the first floor, allowed much needed light to enter the space. Circulation and window access was placed around the atrium, integrating all apartments with the space.
The screens are placed along the front of the building to block sunlight and obstruct views into the apartments from the street.The adjustability of the screens allows for differing views from the interior of the apartment.
Street Elevation
Axon Section
Residential Massing
Retail Diagram Circulation Diagram
Fourth Floor Plan
Interior Atrium Perspective
Exterior Night Rendering
Chicago, IL
SCREENING CHICAGO • Single Project Location • Chicago, IL Date • Spring 2011 Duration • 10 week project
Media • Revit • AutoCAD • Photoshop • Indesign • Sketchup
Project Description • The project was to design a mixed use building that includes first floor retail, parking, and residential condos. The site chosen was a small vacant lot located on the northeast corner of Chicago Ave. and Lasalle Blvd. The most pressing issue was that of circulation around the site. By taking advantage of the alley behind the site, I was able to create separation between the public and private entrances. My goal for the design was to create outdoor space for the residents while screening the noise of Chicago out. The project intends to use precast concrete panels hung from the exterior of the building to create this tranquil interior space. The floor plans differed on each level creating differing terraces for most of the apartments. The precast concrete panels also created the vision of a typical highrise building and hid the fact that the floor plans created any type of interior terrace. Due to the high activity of the site, the building needed to have a high vertical presence in the city.
Floor Plan Outlines
Exploded Wall Axon
Apartment Rendering
The buildings location greatly impacted the design of the facade. The screen that is located on the southern side of the building is used to shade the interior spaces. Concrete panels are placed onto the north, east, and west facades, as well as the front facade that is directly next to a terrace.
Apartment Rendering
Terrace Rendering
Apartment Axon Apartment Lobby
Typical Floor Plan
Restaurant Lobby
Chicago, IL
HIGH SPEED RAIL
• Group Project Location Media • Chicago, IL • Revit Date • AutoCAD • Fall 2012 • Illustrator Duration • Photoshop • 14 week project • Indesign Group Members • Autodesk Sketchbook • Caitlin Kelleher • Dustin Piercy • Phillip Svetich Awards • Graduate Award for Design Excellence • Chicago Prize Award Nomination Project Description • The task of the studio was to design a high speed rail station that was to share a site with a highrise project that was being designed in another studio. As a group, we decided that we wanted to integrate the two projects as much as possible and to focus on the densification of Chicago. The project required us to tear down an apartment building that is currently on the site. We decided that tearing it down would be taking much needed housing away from the area, therefore, we chose to integrate housing into our site in a way that kept with our concept. Focusing on the high speed rail part of the project, we chose to locate the train tracks underground directly along the river. This created an issue in deciding where the high rise would be located and where the circulation around the site was going to be located. The site was restricted to two blocks with lake street running directly through along with the green and pink line trains.
Site Location
Plaza at Lake St. level creates a level surface that further connects the entire site.
Small Business Offices Stacked on top of the retail along Canal St. and Randolph.
Lake St. and EL break site into two sides
Chicago’s grid system and setbacks
Removing Residential building previously located on the site
Pushing main level down to create connection across site below Lake St.
Retail and Restaurants Placed along the grid and along the circulation of the Plaza
Relocating the program of the demolished building within the site by splitting apart the double loaded corridor
And placing the program at the water front in the form of a single loaded corridor building giving every unit a water view
Tower pinched so as to give the hotel smaller floor plates. Corner clipped to create street facade.
Triple height green spaces create communal spaces for offices and residents and also signify place to pass through to riverfront.
Residential placed on top of the retail and restaurants along the plaza
Orient views above to Chicago river and Lake Michigan. Facade at lower level directs to station and plaza
Public healthclub and track create another connection across the site
Office and Hotel tower anchors plaza at north end of site. Building is rotated so as to orient it along the rivers edge.
Hotel amenities and upscale restaurant at top
Program Distrinution
Site Plan
Original Concept
The circulation was our main focus because of the very difficult task of creating a connection beneath Lake street that ran directly through our site. The tracks run along the eastern edge of the site which led to us radiating the structure along the curve of the tracks so that all of the circulation would lead directly to the platforms.
Plaza Level Plan
Station Level Plan
Platform Rendering
Platform Enterance
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AMENITIES+RESTAURANT UP
MECHANICAL EXTENDED STAY:
3 One-Bed Studio Suites 425 Sq. Ft.[48 Total Units] 1 One-Bed Suite 480 Sq. Ft.[16 Total Units] 6 Two-Bed Studio Suites 450 Sq. Ft.[96 Total] 5 Two-Bed Suites 500 Sq. Ft.[80 Total] 1 Family Suite 850 Sq. Ft.[16 Total] 2 1
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HOTEL:
10 One-Bed 340 Sq. Ft.[179 Total Units] 13 Two-Bed 430 Sq. Ft.[241 Total]
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HOTEL SKY LOBBY MECHANICAL MODULAR OFFICES: ~22,000 Sq. Ft.
MECHANICAL
COMBINATION OFFICES ~25,500 Sq. Ft
OFFICE/ HOTEL LOBBY COMMUNAL LOBBY MECHANICAL
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24” Round Column 24” Concrete Beam
#8 Steel Rebar
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5/8 “ Gypsum Wall Board
HouseKeeping Galvanized Steel Tube Frame Perforated Stainless Steel Sunshade Panels Steel Suspension Rod
Kitchen UP
Curtain Wall Roller
Fire Barrier Channel Steel Vapor Barrier Semi Rigid Mineral Fiber board insulation Top Curtain Wall Roller Curtain Wall Mulions
HVAC Air Return Suspended Ceiling System Perforated Stainless Steel Opaque Panels
The loft apartments on the east side of the site are accessed by a single loaded corridor.
Three levels are then used as two different lofts.
Two Bedroom Units
One Bedroom Loft
The middle level of the three is seperated and used for each unit, one having access to the front half and the other having access to the back half.
Two Bedroom Units
One Bedroom Loft
Adding these levels how
in the staircases, are the two of units and they intermix. Loft Diagram
+ 10’Apartment Skin Axon
The apartments are all along a single loaded corridor facing the plaza, therefore we decided to have a + metal 0’ skin mesh that flows along the top of the apartments and then covers some of the plaza.
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Circulation Diagram
Chicago, IL
FRANKLIN POINT
• Group Project Location Media • Chicago, IL • Revit Date • AutoCAD • Spring 2013 • Rhino Duration • Illustrator • 14 week project • Photoshop Group Members • Indesign • Rebecca Ackerman • Anthony Oplawski • Natalie Otrembiak Project Description • The project is located in the Printers Row neighborhood of Chicago along the Chicago River. The studio itself was focused on urban planning, site planning, and building design along with the design of the program for the buildings themselves. Our intent with the project was to develop a mixed-use community that provides users with a connection point between Chicago’s Loop and South Loop. The site creates a destination for business, living, and leisure in a high traffic circulation point downtown. The program of our project required a squarefootage of approximately five million, therefore tall towers on the site open up the ground plane for much needed greenery in the area. The high-density buildings are designed to create a community for residents and office workers within the towers, and large outdoor spaces placed on top of the tiers create a community gathering space for each of those towers. By placing much needed public space on the ground plane, and keeping the site open on all sides for the surrounding community, the ammenities and outdoor space will attract people to live, work, and visit the site.
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Push the site down to create a parking level and connection points through the site.
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Place the buildings to frame the circulation through the site and for the best placement for access.
Curve the buildings for the best possible views of the city.
Extrude buildings up to the appropriate height for the square footage needed.
Observation Deck Condo Hotel Restaurant Office Mechanical Amenities Lobby Retail Parking
Tier the buildings to create smaller floor plates toward the top of the buildings.
Create enterance points along the base of each building.
Pull the river into the site to create a marina and a larger water frontage.
Mixed Use
Condo
Lobby Retail
Office
Parking
Lobby Retail Parking
Finished massing of the site.
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Restaurant
Amenities
Tier the water frontage for a riverwalk.
Hotel
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Mechanical
Combine the marina from the neighboring building.
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Observation Deck
Office Lobby Retail Service
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The site is open surrounding all of the buildings for easy circulation around the site. The tiers of the site along the river contain retail and a restaurant along the water.
Outrigger system
Mixed Use Condo Hotel
Concrete Columns
Office Lobby Retail Service
Concrete Core
Structure Diagram
Ground Floor Plan
Residential Wall Detail
Loft Amenities
There are two types of residential units on the site. The curved building has loft style apartments and the southern highrise building is used as a condo building.
Site Rendering
Studio One Bedroom Two Bedroom Three Bedroom
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Studio One Bedroom Two Bedroom Three Bedroom
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Studio One Bedroom Two Bedroom Three Bedroom
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Studio One Bedroom Two Bedroom Three Bedroom
Residential Tower
Private Office Office Confrence Room Break Room
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Private Office Office Confrence Room Break Room
Level 7-46
Private Office Office Confrence Room Break Room
Office Tower
Chicago, IL
F L [ E X ] PA N S I O N
• Group Project Location Media • Chicago, IL • Rhino Date • Grasshopper • Fall 2013 • AutoCAD Duration • 3D Printing • 14 week project • Illustrator Group Members • Photoshop • Elizabeth Nowicke • Indesign Awards • Graduate Award for Design Excellence Nomination Project Description • The Project is focused around creating a satillite campus for the University of Illinois Fine and Applied Arts college in the year 2030. We were tasked with creating a curriculum along with the design of the school. The site is located on the north side of the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, IL. Flexpansion provides the infrastructure for an educational environment that is constantly in flux. Design schools must continually adapt in order to stay at the forefront of innovation. A space’s ability to transform over time will be essential for future design schools in order to accommodate the ever-changing needs of design students. The transformative capabilities of the proposal provide the school with the ability to offer a flexible curriculum that adapts to enrollment and the demand for space. Student goals determine topics of study, represented by pod groupings that create academic systems. Each system has the capacity to change from year to year, offering the students new experiences and new possibilities for interaction with other disciplines. A collaborative and adaptable environment accelerates the integration of new technologies into the various disciplines offered at the satellite campus and allows for a new level of information sharing that will be essential in keeping the program on the cutting edge of research and design facilities of the future.
CHARRETTE
Using quick Charrette projects to lead toward a final design idea, we took pictures from the chicago site and New York trip and we began to use line drawings to help formulate structural ideas from them.
Another Charette was to design a building in the year 2050. I really wanted to focus on what I believed the year 2050 would be like and how things would have changed by then. My concept started with the idea that the air polution could be very bad compared to now and that we coulc only be able to inhabit buildings. The pods that attach into the structure of the building are about to be combined and moved around to become the combination that you would like to have.
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landscape architecture
architecture
urban planning
music theatre
art + design
2013 dance
Curriculum Diagram
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Extrude ground plane
Accommodate for street access
Create views
Interact with the ground
Create views to the East and West
Create a connection point with the “L�
Provide sunlight for the merchandise mart
Attach the primary and secondary structural systems to the form
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Structural Exploded Axon
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The structure of the system can create different sized pods that each have a different program use.
These pods are then configured into a general system that includes: a quad, two doubles, and two singles. Each of these systems would be considered one studio class.
The Smallest pods are used for transitional spaces and model building. The double pods are used for lecture and discussion space and a wood shop. The large quad pods are used for studio spaces and gathering spaces. The circulation throughout the building happens throughout the stucture.
circulation through pods
ramp circulation across atrium
circulation through structure
Circulation Diagram Lecture Space Exhibition Space
Small Transitional Space Studio Space Dance Studio
Wood Shop Laser Cutters 3D Printer Model Building Computer Lab
Program Diagram of System
The pods have two different sides to them that are placed onto the structure from either side. The interior side of the pod is used for a large gathering and informal exhibition space for the studio, while the exterior side is used for the individual desks space for the students.
individualized spaces
collective space merchandise mart
small group spaces
transitional spaces
individual to group relationship
The Section diagram is showing the relationship between the merchandise mart and the program within the building. The farther you get away from the merchadise mart, the more individualized the program becomes. Just like with the pods, they have a gathering space but also have an individual side that is used for the studio spaces.
View from Upper Pod
Pod Growth Overtime
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New York, NY
AQUATIC CENTER
• Group Project Location Media • New York, NY • Revit Date • Rhino • Spring 2014 • AutoCAD Duration • SAP3000 • 14 week project • Illustrator Group Members • Photoshop • Caitlin Kelleher • Indesign Project Description • The site is located in Williamsburg, New York in East River State Park. The project is to design an aquatic center alongside the state park that can be used for large gatherings such as national swimming championships along with small daily swimming lessons. The idea behind the project is to design a long span structure in a structural planning class that coincides with the studio so that the entire project is designed down to the structural connections. The project is meant to create a connection from the pedestrian level of the street all the way out to the city level of New York. The rest of the project will include development of the skin of the building. Due to the large amount of glass along the southwestern facing wall there will need to be integration of passive and active solar shading along with solar heating elements to help heat the building. All of the seating is located along one edge of the building, allowing spectators to have a view of the lower manhattan skyline while the ones entering the building have views of midtown manhattan.
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The structures in the space are long span trusses that open up to the city views of New York in the background. The pools create a linear relationship into the city beyond, along with the ceiling reinforcing the relationship above. linking pedestrian + water + city
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