T. ABRAHAM WILSON SELECTED WORKS - 2020
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T. A BR AHAM WI LSON
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3414 Ind ia n Q u e e n L a ne Phi l adel ph ia , P A 1 9 1 2 9 434. 409. 3 9 9 0 t.ab ewi l s o n 8 2 @ gma il.co m http s : / / i s su u .c o m/t.a be w ilso n
Master of Architecture Candidate University of Virginia Lester A. Sorensen Scholarship; Faculty of Architecture Award for Design Excellence
College Park, MD 2004 - 2006
Master of Architecture Candidate University of Maryland Left in good standing to pursue professional opportunities in architecture and music
Charlottesville, VA 2000-2004
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Johann Mordhorst KieranTimberlake, Principal 215.922.6600 jmordhorst@kierantimberlake.com
Charlottesville, VA 2016 - 2018
WO RK E XPE RIE NCE
Philadelphia, PA 2018 - 2020
David Feaster KieranTimberlake, Principal 215.922.6600 dfeaster@kierantimberlake.com Adams Sutphin Sutphin Architecture, Principal 434.825.7743 has@sutphinarchitecture.com Charlottesville, VA 2012 - 2016
SKILLS Digital Revit Rhino AutoCAD Sketchup Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Bluebeam Revu Enscape Lumion Microsoft Suite Analog Hand drafting Physical modeling Color rendering Carpentry Freehand drawing
B.A. Religious Studies University of Virginia
KieranTimberlake Architectural Designer Folger Shakespeare Library Addition and Renovation, Washington, D.C. (DD, CD) Designed and detailed casework, interior finishes for 12,000 SF addition Rice University, Houston, TX (Master plan) Developed entry sequence and framework plan for 50-acre precinct St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA (CD) Aided in design and detailing of curtain wall and exterior envelope of 24,000 SF parish house Passive Row House, Philadelphia, PA (Pro Bono) Prepared permit drawings for passive house retrofit of West Philly row house Sutphin Architects Architectural Designer Aided principal architect in all phases of design and documentation of single-family residential projects
T EACHING E XPE RIE NCE
Charlottesville, VA Spring 2018
Foundation Studio I, Anselmo Canfora Teaching Assistant - Design Principles and Process
Charlottesville, VA Fall 2017
Lessons of the Lawn, Peter Waldman Teaching Assistant - Architectural Theory and Philosophy
O THE R Delhi, India Fall 2017 Kwari Kwar, Uganda Spring 2017
The Yamuna River Project Semester long design studio studying urban blight and environmental pollution reCOVER - Kwari Kwar Faith & Nursery School - University of Virginia Designed a primary school in Kwari Kwar, Uganda with Arup Engineers
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PROFESSIONAL WORK
Folger Shakespeare Library Addition
St. Peter’s Episcopal Parish House
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Schoolhouse Road Addition
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ACADEMIC WORK
Campbell Hall Addition
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Kwari Kwar School & Nursery - Studio reCOVER
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Housing University Life
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Urbanization of Coronation Pillar
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Sanctuary
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The Vicenza Program
Chiaroscuro
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FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY ADDITION Professional Work | KieranTimberlake Role on Project: Designer Design Phases: DD, CD The addition to Paul Cret’s Folger Shakespeare Library is a 12,000 sq. ft. exhibition space designed to house and display the library’s collection of William Shakespeare’s “first folio”—the largest of such collections in the world. Additionally, two ramped courtyards provide handicap access and a new, more welcoming entry sequence. The project required underpinning the existing north facade and the demolition and reconstruction of the existing north terrace, underneath which the exhibition space is to be located. The concept for the entry procession was a series of nested spaces, leading visitors from the courtyards through the lobbies and
ENTRY COURTYARD (LANDSCAPE BY OLIN)
finally into the white oak-clad North Gallery, which possesses a figural, jewel box-like quality and houses the first folio. My tasks on this project included the redesign of the entry courtyards to comply with feedback from the Washington D.C. Commission of Fine Arts as well as the design and detailing of the casework and interior finishes of the formal public spaces. STUDY SKETCHES 6
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY ADDITION
PROCESS RENDERINGS FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY ADDITION
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SPRINKLER VALANCE DETAIL
STEEL FASCIA DETAIL
PROCESS RENDERINGS 8
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY ADDITION
GIFT SHOP CASEWORK FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY ADDITION
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ST. PETER’S EPISCOPAL PARISH HOUSE Professional Work | KieranTimberlake Role on Project: Designer Design Phases: DD, CD The St. Peter’s Episcopal Parish House is a 24,000 SF annex to the historic church built in 1761 in Philadelphia. The new spaces include a Great Hall, parish offices, meeting rooms and musical rehearsal spaces. The client desired a modern building whose materiality and compostion was at home in the church precinct and the historic neighborhood of Society Hill. The building is composed of a hybrid steel and heavy timber structure with an envelope of wood curtain wall and brick rain screen. While the majority of the building’s curtain wall lined the triple-height
NORTH FACADE
Great Hall, I was tasked with designing the portion adjacent to the four meeting rooms along the north facade. The challenge was to maintain some degree of the abstraction and monumentality of the Great Hall mullion pattern while gracefully accommodating the floors and interior partitions separating the four meeting rooms. The resulting modified pattern played upon the “tartan plaid” of the Great Hall and incorporated a shadow box detail which maintained a taut glass facade and merged the spandrels with a horizontal batten modesty screen in the rooms above.
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ST. PETER’S PARISH HOUSE
GREAT HALL
WOOD CURTAIN WALL DETAILS
WALL SECTION
ST. PETER’S PARISH HOUSE
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S C HO O L H O U S E R O A D A D DI T I O N
2016 ADDITION
Professional Work | Freelance Expected Completion: Winter 2020 Inspired in part by a nearby historic mill house, this second
ORIGINAL 18TH-CENTURY SCHOOLHOUSE
addition to a 18th-century oneroom schoolhouse sought to evoke the utilitarian spirit of the numerous cedar-clad agricultural ruins common throughout the Shenandoah Valley. Built on a highly constrained site, the design of the addition subtly contorts to avoid disturbing an existing limestone retaining wall, while maintaining the simple forms reminiscent of the valley
2020 ADDITION
vernacular. Consisting of two stacked bedrooms and a bath, the addition creates an enclosed courtyard while leaving views open to the western mountains. Exterior louvered shutters are located on the south and west faces of the addition to provide privacy, as well as to avoid excessive solar heat gain. 12
SCHOOLHOUSE ROAD ADDITION
STORAGE BARN
VIEW FROM NORTHWEST
LEVEL 1 FLOOR PLAN
VIEW FROM SOUTHWEST
LEVEL 2 FLOOR PLAN
SECTION
WALL SECTION THROUGH DORMER
SCHOOLHOUSE ROAD ADDITION
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CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION
CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION Graduate Design Studio | Spring 2018 Critic: Luis Pancorbo Location: Charlottesville, VA
Since the construction of UVa’s Campbell Hall in 1970, the north terrace has always been an under-utilized space. While its scale is similar to that of a large piazza, the lack of sunlight and meaningful connection to pedestrian circulation makes it one of the less active spaces on the school premises. Locating the new robotics lab on the north terrace not only breaks it up into smaller, more human-scaled spaces but also improves the entry sequence on the first floor, creates a clear sense of arrival, increases solar exposure, and showcases the new lab to the public as the future of UVa Architecture. Furthermore, by locating the balance of the new program above the west wing, the terrace is activated by the pass-through pedestrian traffic traveling along the extended second floor terrace. In response to the challenge of adding program above and adjacent to the existing west wing which must remain operational, I chose to avoid long spanning structures and large foundations on the north portion of the addition in favor of a light steel structure that “dances” around the existing footprint. The result is a pavilion-like structure that doesn’t attempt to compete with the scale and language of the existing building but instead acts as an intermediary space between building and landscape. The structural assembly of bolted steel plates supporting the new concrete slab reduces construction time and can be lifted into place with a small, mobile crane eliminating the expense and site disturbance of a large fixed crane. This rapid construction method reduces costs and is vital to the maintenance of a strict construction schedule based around the academic calendar. CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION
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PROGRAM 1. ENTRY 2. AR/VR, SPATIAL DATA, BIM LABS 3. OPEN R&D INCUBATOR 4. PROJECT BASED INCUBATOR 5. CNC MILLING 6. LAB OFFICE 7. RAPID PROTOTYPING 8. CUTTING / SEWING 9. PIN-UP SPACE 10. CLASSROOM 11. LOADING DOCK 12. WOOD & METAL SHOP 13. ROBOTICS 14. FACULTY / PHD OFFICES 15. CONFERENCE / CLASSROOM 16. ADDITIONAL STUDIO SPACE 17. TERRACE
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CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION - BASEMENT LEVEL
CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION - FIRST FLOOR
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CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION - SECOND FLOOR
CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION
- FOURTH FLOOR
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TRANSVERSE SECTION
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
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CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION
CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION
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CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION - VIEW FROM SECOND FLOOR TERRACE
CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION - MODEL
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1. EXISTING CONDITIONS
2. EXCAVATE TERRACE
3. POUR RETAINING WALL
4. ASSEMBLE STEEL STRUCTURE
5. BUILD FORMWORK
6. POUR SLAB & CONSTRUCT BRISOLEE
CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION
VIEW OF ENTRY
WALL SECTIONS
ROBOTICS LAB
CAMPBELL HALL ADDITION
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K WA R I K WA R FA I T H S C H O O L & NURSERY - UGANDA Studio reCOVER UVa | Spring 2017 Team: Scott Fundling, Anselmo Canfora Location: Kwari Kwar, Uganda Kwari Kwar Faith School & Nursery was a joint effort between Engineers for Overseas Development (EFOD), Arup Engineers (Cardiff, UK) and Studio reCOVER UVa—a program founded by Professor Anselmo Canfora to assist under-served populations through partnerships with humanitarian, community-based organizations, professional firms, and manufacturers. In the design, we sought not only to provide the standard classrooms as described by EFOD, but, in addition, chose to create a set of “outdoor classrooms” and places of gathering in the interstitial spaces between the built mass. Given Uganda’s temperate climate, the flexible outdoor space allows the school to expand and contract in size without further construction. Security was of utmost concern to the school’s founders. Not wanting to simply surround the school with a typical security wall, the architectural language allows the classroom walls to bleed out into the landscape both for security and a feeling of openness and porosity. The school is constructed from site-formed sun-cured brick and a top band of cast-in-place concrete. Roofs are composed of a steel re-bar space frame (not shown in perspectives) designed by Arup and galvanized corrugated steel sheeting. This system creates an air gap between the roof and the classroom space, allowing for ventilation and decreased solar heat gain.
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KWARI KWAR FAITH SCHOOL & NURSERY
FLOOR PLAN
VIEW OF MAIN COURTYARD KWARI KWAR FAITH SCHOOL & NURSERY
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KWARI KWAR FAITH SCHOOL & NURSERY
VIEW FROM ENTRANCE KWARI KWAR FAITH SCHOOL & NURSERY
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SOUTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION
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KWARI KWAR FAITH SCHOOL & NURSERY
VIEW FROM OUTDOOR CLASSROOM KWARI KWAR FAITH SCHOOL & NURSERY
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HOUSING UNIVERSITY LIFE
HOUS ING UNI V ER SI TY L I F E Graduate Design Studio | Fall 2016 Critic: Margarita Jover Location : Charlottesville, VA
Completed in 1900, the West Complex at the University of Virginia was one of the first academic hospitals of its kind in the Mid-Atlantic region. Today, after numerous ill-planned and under-funded additions over the last century, the complex has been slated for decommission in 2020. Despite its historic significance, many have called for the demolition of the old hospital because of its odd, layout and its lack connection to the surrounding city. This design scheme re-imagines the West Complex at UVa as a new music school and student housing campus which addresses the socially impoverished lives of modern day college students through the concept of “dispersed household.�
HOUSING UNIVERSITY LIFE
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The basis of this scheme was formulated following a thorough investigation of the hospital’s growth over the last century. The first few phases of the hospital plan between 1900 and 1940 were indicative of the importance of light and air during this era, including their beneficial effects on patients’ health and well-being. After 1960, one can see a distinct shift in these priorities as the hospital’s architects began filling in courtyards and undoing previous efforts to keep the complex
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open and porous to light and fresh air, as well as to pedestrian traffic. The primary changes to the massing were an effort to reestablish the original grain of the complex and open it back up to both the university and the city of Charlottesville. In my proposal, the central bay to the medical school was demolished, opening the new campus up to the commercial street to the north known as “The Corner.” In addition, the 1960s tower was removed and the building mass redistributed along the eastern edge of the site. 34
HOUSING UNIVERSITY LIFE
PROPOSED DEMOLITION
PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION
PROGRAM:
HOUSING
MUSIC SCHOOL
EXISTING
PROPOSED
The majority of the music school program was allocated to a one to two story mat building on the eastern half of the site, effectively creating a pedestrian street to the east as well as a series of courtyards which run north-south, descending with the topography, through the center of the campus. Rehearsal rooms were located off of both the street and the courtyards which can be opened up to allow performances to be viewed by passers-by, further activating these spaces. HOUSING UNIVERSITY LIFE
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FLOOR PLAN
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HOUSING UNIVERSITY LIFE
PROCESS MODEL
PROCESS MODEL
FINAL MASSING MODEL
Above the music school are four fingers of student and staff residences which are splayed
axially in order to address both the new pedestrian street and Jefferson Park Avenue. All
study rooms, weaving together a “dispersed household” allowing for communal meals
The northern exposure of residencies is given over to kitchens, living spaces, and
bedrooms in both the new and existing buildings are provided with access to a small,
and encouraging social activity within the dormitory. To further this notion, the re-purposed
private, south-facing garden-porch. Here students are able to grow a small amount of
buildings on the western half of the campus are tied together by a “skewer” of raised
fruits and vegetables--an opportunity which not only benefits the students’ health, but also
circulation and small living rooms, echoing the original hospital arrangement and allowing
begins to question their typical role as “pure consumers.”
for increased social interaction between dormitories. HOUSING UNIVERSITY LIFE
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One challenge of the adaptive reuse of the existing hospital buildings was how to make use of the roughly 13-foot floor plates which are too tall for typical dormitory rooms and not tall enough for a typical two-story loft. The solution was a “sleepingpod” and loft arrangement which takes advantage of the extra floor-to-floor height and gives each students a small private space while maintaining the footprint of a standard dorm room. Thus, while the traditional dormitory typology deprives students of their public and private lives, this arrangement
STUDENT UNIT PLAN (CUT AT FIRST LEVEL)
gives equal value to both, providing a healthier and more holistic first-year experience.
AXONOMETRIC DIAGRAM - STUDENT HOUSING UNIT
STUDENT UNIT PLAN (CUT AT TWO LEVELS)
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HOUSING UNIVERSITY LIFE
SECTION DIAGRAM - STUDENT UNIT AGGREGATION
HOUSING UNIVERSITY LIFE
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URBANIZATION OF CORONATION PILLAR
SITE PLAN
UR BA NI Z AT IO N O F C O R O NAT I O N P I L L A R Graduate Design Studio | Fall 2017 Critic: Iñaki Alday, Pankaj Vir Gupta Location: Delhi, India
As rural land-holding patterns in developing countries,
After a thorough survey of traditional Indian housing
such as India, become less and less able to support
types, including the haveli palaces and pol housing
growing populations, millions of migrants have moved
of the 19th century, it became clear that what
to larger cities in hopes of higher wage jobs. The
allowed them to be livable housing types at such high
shortage of affordable housing in large developing
densities was their strong connection to public space.
cities has led to the construction of hundreds of
In traditional Indian cities, such as Old Delhi, streets
thousands of illegal, structurally unsound dwellings on
are places of both social and economic exchange.
the city periphery, often built on illegally occupied land.
Shallow porches are ubiquitous and are places of
The result is vast expanses of ultra-dense neighborhoods
gathering which allow for interaction with the messy
with little to no planning or access to basic utilities and
vitality of the street life. The procession from street to
public transportation.
sleeping quarters is a seamless continuum from public to private and features multi-use rooms which allow for
The housing most often constructed with funding from
comfortable living at extreme density.
the city are high-rise apartment blocks which offer no connection with the vibrant Indian street life and
The driving questions of this project are: Can this vital
quickly develop into “vertical slums.” The little social
connection to public space be maintained at building
housing that is provided within the city is already
heights of five to seven stories to surpass the densities of
beyond the budgets of the city’s foundering economy.
both the ad-hoc, illegally occupied urban villages and the government subsidized apartment buildings? Could
At this point in time, there have been little to no
there be a new housing type that allowed for the same
examples of low-rise, high density social housing that
access to light and air at this density? One solution was
incorporate traditional dwelling patterns, access to
to “pull the public space upward” to create a second
mobility, or any semblance of healthy urbanity. In the
level interior “street.” In this scheme, the lower two to
in this design project I explore the question of whether
three floors are given over to the primary street while
there are high density social housing models that are
the upper floors are accessed from a secondary raised
affordable to large developing cities such as Delhi, as
street.
well as compatible with traditional urban scale and streetscapes. URBANIZATION OF CORONATION PILLAR
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TRADITIONAL STREET SECTIONS
HIGHER DENSITY STREET SECTION STUDY
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URBANIZATION OF CORONATION PILLAR
BLOCK STUDY
BLOCK SCHEME WITH PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION
Inclusion of incremental housing units increases the accessibility of the housing type to Indian citizens of lesser means, ultimately positioning the tradition of self-construction not as a problem to be dealt with, but as a positive force to be harnessed. Through incremental housing, not only can residents make a dwelling his or her own, but it also becomes an
POTENTIAL BLOCK ARRANGEMENTS
Construction is of pre-cast concrete and tilt-up concrete slab. This construction type has been found to be not only inexpensive but appropriate for the high seismic zone in which Delhi resides. Bamboo screens provide shade to outdoor gathering spaces and act as brisolee to reduce thermal heat gain in the hot Indian climate.
investment for the tenants and the city as a whole, building value through sweat equity.
URBANIZATION OF CORONATION PILLAR
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1 - 3 BEDROOM INCREMENTAL UNIT
1 - 3 BEDROOM INCREMENTAL UNIT 1 - 2 BEDROOM UNIT
COMMERCIAL / OFFICE
UNIT PLANS
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URBANIZATION OF CORONATION PILLAR
UNIT AXONOMETRIC
SITE SECTIONS
5,000 UNITS @ 50 SQ. METERS ( 75 SQ. METERS BUILT OUT ) 6,000 UNITS @ 35 SQ. METERS ( 75 SQ. METERS BUILT OUT ) 3,500 UNITS @ 100 - 150 SQUARE METERS 14,500 TOTAL UNITS 208,000 TOTAL PEOPLE HOUSED IN SOCIAL HOUSING 308,000 TOTAL PEOPLE HOUSED DENSITY: 113,000 PEOPLE / SQ. KILOMETER
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BLOCK PLAN - FIRST FLOOR 46
URBANIZATION OF CORONATION PILLAR
BLOCK PLAN - THIRD FLOOR URBANIZATION OF CORONATION PILLAR
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TYPICAL SECTION
VIEW FROM PEDESTRIAN STREET 48
URBANIZATION OF CORONATION PILLAR
VIEW FROM RAISED STREET
TYPICAL ELEVATION
VIEW FROM PRIMARY STREET URBANIZATION OF CORONATION PILLAR
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S A NC T U A R Y
Graduate Coursework | Fall 2017 Partner: Mert Kanzu The sanctuary is composed of an armature of site-cast concrete walls and steel trusses which act as both the primary structure of the interior space as well as exterior landscape elements. The envelope is a steel curtain-wall system interspersed with light wood framing. The butterfly roof is designed to funnel water into a reflecting pool and is constructed from structural insulated panels (SIPS) and standing-seam copper. 50
SANCTUARY
SANCTUARY
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FLOOR PLAN
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SANCTUARY
SANCTUARY
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NORTH - SOUTH SECTION
EAST - WEST SECTION
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SANCTUARY
CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE
1. WALLS
2. TRUSSES
3. ROOF
4. ENVELOPE DETAILS
WALL SECTION
SANCTUARY
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V I C E NZ A Critic: Charlie Menefee During a five-week drawing program in the Veneto, I analyzed works by Carlo Scarpa, Andrea Palladio, and Leon Battista Alberti, among others.
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SCARPA DETAILS
VILLA ROTUNDA
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VICENZA SKETCHES
BASILICA SANT’ ANDREA, MANTOVA
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CHIAROSCURO Critic: Charlie Menefee Four-week course exploring the analysis and representation of form and space through tone, shade and shadow.
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CAMPBELL HALL & ERIC GODWIN MEMORIAL
SHER MANDAL - DELHI, INDIA
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