VIOLET WHITNEY
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
0-1 RESUME 2-9 THE APIARY
a park about stewardship | finalist from 300+ entries
10-15 TIME SQUARE HEART
augmented reality| with SOFTlab
16-19 TALL TOWER
a tower to space | recognition on BBC
20-27 WE ARE FLOWERS
parametric flower ceiling | with SOFTlab
28-35 CONSIDERING THE QUAKE
kinetic sculpture / earthquake exhibition | with SOFTlab
36-45 OPEN HOUSE
prefab/flat pack house | undergraduate
46-51 LIGHT CONE
parametric icons | with SOFTlab
52-57 CLOUD
of a unique construction method | won competition
58-61 TAIWAN FACADE
parametric facade | with SOFTlab
62-67 TEEN CENTER
flexibility through abstract unprescribed forms | undergraduate
68-75 TEACHER EARTH
school for a “plugged in” generation | undergraduate
AWARDS 6970 THE SPACES IN BETWEEN - Salt Lake City and the LDS Church, 2013 finalist selected from over 300 international entries SCULPTURE AWARD - Regatta Point Condominiums, 2011 won competition and built permanent sculpture DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD - ASU College of Design, 2011-2008 top 3 studio projects DEAN’S LIST - Arizona State University, 2011-2008 (every semester) academic achievement AIA MILESTONE SCHOLARSHIP - AIAS & College of Design, 2009 Top student (400+ students) - Architecture and Landscape Architecture Program
SKILLS Rhino, Grasshopper, V-Ray, CAD, SketchUp, Revit, Word, Outlook, Excel, Adobe, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Hablo Español
EDUCATION BSD IN ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES, Arizona State University, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, May 2011, Magna Cum-Laude LEED AP BD+C, US Green Building Council, Jan 2009
EXPERIENCE PROJECT MANAGER/DESIGNER, SOFTlab, New York, NY, Present-Sept 2013 Develop design, fabricate, and install projects ranging from architecture, sculpture to digital media. Oversee office workflowDirect graphic standards for the office (teaching rendering techniques, scripting in grasshopper, and representation methods).
VIOLET WHITNEY LEED AP BD+C .505.412.9150. 28 LEFFERTS PLACE #3 . BROOKLYN, NY 11238
Projects managed: We Are Flowers - a mylar and translucent film parametric ceiling at a retail store in Soho. (15 person team) Considering the Quake - an earthquake exhibition including a 2 story kinetic sculpture at the Center for Architecture in NYC. (15 person team) Archtober - an interactive calendar exhibition using 31 surface pros at the Center for Architecture in New York (3 person team) Hatchhub - a complexly shaped 10’ osb display booth for an online hub of independent product and jewelry designers. (8 person team) Haulien Facade - a parametric facade on an existing building in Taiwan. (3 person team) Melissa Lights - sculpture of 200 lights in a high-end retail shoe store in Soho. 3D MODELING INSTRUCTOR, SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE, Bronxville, NY, Fall 2013 Taught a SketchUp and representation class for a first year architecture studio for Tishan Hsu. FREELANCE GRAPHIC/ WEB DESIGN, Global, Present-Apr 2013 Designed packaging, apparel, web sites and web user interface for various companies. ARCHITECT 1, SMITHGROUPJJR INC, Phoenix AZ, Apr 2013-Oct 2006 Saw $52,000,000 national laboratory through from interview to100% construction documents. Developed a cost benefit analysis and LEED toolkit excel program for nation-wide SmithGroupJJR (800 person firm). Performed design development, master planning and zoning. COMMISSIONED ARTIST, REGATTA POINT, Tempe, AZ Nov 2011-Aug 2011 Designed, built, and installed a resin and fiberglass sculpture.
COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS
THE APIARY | TIME SQUARE HEART| TALL TOWER
THE APIARY spring 2013 | competition finalist | violet whitney, liam mahoney sixtynineseventy.<<hyperlink
“The hive and honey bees form our communal coat of arms…. It is a significant representation of the industry, harmony, order and frugality of the people, and of the sweet results of their toil, union and intelligent cooperation.” - The Deseret News Utah on the beehive symbolism (Oct. 11, 1881). The Apiary seeks to refresh
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an old identity for Salt Lake City by introducing a collaborative nursery that is entirely run and operated by the citizens of the city. By introducing a playful nursery as a machine of kinetic parts visitors to the site are encouraged to participate in the procurement and propagation of The Apiary’s plants.
a civilian-run cause and effect place making-machine
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40.9%
OF U.S. OF UTAH RESIDENTS RESIDENTS VOLUNTEER
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UTAH IS NUMBER ONE IN THE US FOR VOLUNTEERING
a citizen to city machine fabricates landscape for all of Salt Lake City
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UTAH IS NUMBER ONE IN THE US FOR VOLUNTEERING
powered through playful impromptu stewardship
a nursery for all of Salt Lake City
save space, go vertical 5
water pump
tree planter with watering wheel
lights and showers
rented agriculture plots
potted plants on vertical conveyor 6
merry-go-round (controls plant conveyor rotation)
power generation
kiosk
large lounge bench
raised platforms
seating with power and Wi-Fi for lap top and cell
existing blocks 69 and 70
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1 Jessie E. Quinney Center for Dance
A Plaza
2 Orpheum Theatre (Capitol Theatre)
B Horizontal Connection
3 Gallivan Center Outdoor Performance Stage
C Exhibition
Farmers Market Nursery Plants for Sale Light Rail, Vehicle, and Bike Image Projections on Street
4 Retail Core 5 Utah Performing Arts Center (UPAC)
increase sidewalk space
D Solace Space
6 Utah Film and Media Arts
Lounging Benches Nursery Plants for Sale
7 Rocky Mountain Power Substation
new theatre spaces
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vertical gardens in interstitial space
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cause/effect machine is hung in topography of local mountain
detail view of rotating plants
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aerial view of main street
main street view during holdiay season
gears to rotate plants
lights and watering structure
potted plants on vertical conveyer
farmer’s market promotes the work of the city’s individuals
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SWEET HEART fall 2013 | invited competition | violet whitney, SOFTlab http://www.timessquarenyc.org/events/valentines-day/ index.aspx#.UpkzsZWqxUQ <<hyperlink
The Time Square Heart is a new tradition every Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day in Time Square to reinterpret the heart. Inspired by the Sweet Heart Candy, hidden Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s messages twinkle on and off around a crystal heart. The irregular shaped heart acts as a register for a custom based photo
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platform that uses technology similar to facial recognition to reveal different hidden messages as you move your camera around the heart. The heart is made of 126 cells of aluminum frames which will be flat packed and sent to backers who have funded the project to be reassembled into unique lamps.
a heart of many
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a crowd-funded interactive sculpture is deconstructed into flat-pack lights
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flickering at night 13
mirrored during the day
Visitors can go to a custom website to take photos with their mobile device
The Web based photo application will register specific points on the irregular heart
As visitors move around the messages change base on pre-mapped perspectives of the heart
plan inspiration from kitschy Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s candy
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front elevation
side elevation
A prototype for the water jet cut aluminum frame.
The heart is clad in one-way mirrored acrylic which is transparent when backlit
Messages are revealed as lights within the heart pulse on and off
1 X 126 = <3 126 CELLS
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To help fund the piece, there will be a kickstarter campaign. Each fo the 126 cells will have a detail to receive a standard hanging light fixture. These cells will be offered as individual cells or clusters to those who pledge to the project. Once the installation is taken down, each cell will be flat packed and shipped to the corresponding contributor. Contributors would also be able to sponsor various messages throughout the heart.
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O TALL TOWER spring 2013 | competition | violet whitney, utkarsh kumar, vineet bhosle http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24116925 <<hyperlink
The O3 Tall Tower is a tower to combat ozone depletion by sending O3 via elevator to the ozone layer. The tower produces, and collects O3 at the Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ozone to keep the ozone balanced and the Earth safe. The
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tower operates as a permanent space elevator for space exploration and astronauts and also holds entire cities and ecologies, leaving the most of the world as a natural refuge.
a super-tall-tower to the ozone to regulate ozone holes
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the tallest tower the world has ever seen will turn collaborative neglect of global warming into a collective solution
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O3
OZONE HOLE GROWTH
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emission pipe
2010 ozone layer
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zone III: emission
liquid oxygen storage
landing zone
emission | city plate
AT RISK INDIVIDUALS FROM OZONE DEPLETION
Indonesia Vietnam China 59k 89k 684k Bangledesh 15k India Nigeria 814k Pakistan 84k 91k
city connectors oxygen transfer
zone II: production tropopause
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oxygen collection plants production | city plate
city connectors city
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zone I: habitat
DIY FABRICATION EFFICIENCY
OPEN HOUSE| LIGHT CONE | CLOUD | FACADE | VISUALIZED EARTHQUAKES
WE ARE FLOWERS may 2014 | built work | violet whitney, SOFTlab
The “We Are Flowers” Installation was designed specifically for the New York flagship Melissa Shoe store and inspired by the company moto: “We are flowers”. We wanted to carry the fun and organic forms of the shoe collection into the design. It was a technological and engineering challenge to design something that would be light and natural from the large scale of the store down to a
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single pedal. The installation was made by laser cutting 20,000 flowers and an engineered mylar net that is made of over 4,000 unique pieces. We used Grasshopper to break down the parametric surface into individual parts small enough to be flat cut on a laser cutter and 15 volunteers and employees to assemble and erect the entire surface.
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an organically formed ceiling of 20,000 flowers
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view from inside the installation
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CONSIDERING THE QUAKE winter 2013 | built work | violet whitney, SOFTlab
Considering The Quake: Seismic Design on Edge was an exhibition hosted by the American Institute of Architects at the CFA in New York. Along with deigning the overall exhibition we also produced an interactive installation in collaboration with ARUP. This installation was a center piece of the exhibition that visualized the effects of an earthquake and some of the considerations that are taken into account while designing buildings in seismic regions. The two story sculpture invites visitors to create and adjust their own seismic
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wave that wiggles the entire sculpture, tuning the installation to see various zones of resonance within a grid of pipes. Each pipe had a weight that was calibrated at various heights in a graph throughout the grid. These weights alter the natural period of the pipes so that as visitors adjusted the wave zones of wiggling pipes would move or dissipate as you find periods coincident with the various pipes. As with buildings during an earthquake, each pipe resonated at specific frequencies depending on the height of the weight.
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an interactive two story kinetic sculpture that emulates buildings during earthquakes
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podiums: hot wire cut water resistant foam pvc pipe, cnc-milled osb wall display/projection: paint, vinyl, projection poster display (below): aluminum waterjet cut
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sculpture from upstairs
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fabricating the sculpture
sculpture from downstairs
interactive touch screen
THE OPEN HOUSE fall 2011 | studio III |instructor wendell burnette
The Open House is single-family dwelling designed specifically for a low income Harmon Neighborhood in south Phoenix. The project is a new residential prototype for modern transient culture on a budget. It is a shell of essential infrastructure,
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leaving flexible space to morph gradually with its occupant. The house is made affordable by condensing the most expensive construction into small prefabricated modules, and prefabricating flat packed walls which can be quickly assembled on site.
usual model move houses or build on
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open house invest in place, use furniture to adapt
mass manufacturing packs customization, flexibility, and affordability into a shippable box
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potential infill of vacant lots plan
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order the kit
banos
limpieza
cocina
fixtures, finishes, and plumbing included
the laundry
the kitchen
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll fabricate it off-site
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glass bracing
glass & doors
flat pack walls
flat pack furniture
top to bottom: 2’x8’ windows fit in between framing, weather-proofing, MDF, 2’ o.c. wood framing, insulation, gypsum board
Just your standard PAX unit from Ikea will separate as many or as few spaces as you desire. Use a book shelf, an entertainment system, a curtain or whatever! we’ll install the 3 modules
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the big family
the young family
the our side/ kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; side
the entertainers
the studio
the duplex
the home office
the dorm
the granny flat
the neighborhood salon
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Phoenix, AZ, Harmon Neighborhood Demographics
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Customization for the Demographics
LIGHT CONE nov 2013 | installation | violet whitney, SOFTlab
In a high end retail space in SOHO, a cone of randomly scattered lights brings color and contrast to a polished white space. Using Rhino and Grasshopper to facilitate fabrication, unique shapes were milled out of aluminum and cords for lights were cut to specific lengths and spliced. I project managed a team of four for its
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design and installation. Fabrication of the aluminum frame was done through Tietz-Baccon. Special circumstances for the project included, managing electrical power loads, assembly of sculpture with scaffolding in a tight location, and organizing the assembly and placement of 120 uniquely coordinated lights.
axonometric view
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fabricating â&#x20AC;&#x153;randomâ&#x20AC;? placement on a grid
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plan
V beam A1 V beam A2
8’-2”
8’-0”
aluminum frame fabrication diagram
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grasshopper scripting logic
a glowing beacon from the street
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street view
view from basement
CLOUD
fall 2012 | competition winner | solo artist | budget:$3000 The Cloud project is a commissioned sculpture that explored a new and construction process. Beach balls were hung by pencils while the balls were coated in fiberglass and resin, and then layered in bondo for their amorphic geometries. Located in a plain atrium of a luxury apartment complex, The Cloud softens and
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brightens a bland space which is the communal front door for many residents surrounding the atrium. The organically shaped sculptures sway freely, giving resident relief from the rigidity of the atriumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flat stucco walls. This was my first permanent public art piece.
aircraft cable swage sleeve loop screw tall bolt washer threaded rod
fiberglass epoxy beach ball bondo
washer capped bolt
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a new construction process explored
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inflate beach ball
mix 2 parts resin with 1 part hardener
dip entire leaf in resin (use gloves)
cover ball completely in bondo
let dry 2 days in full sun
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shove pencil into inflater
drill holes at opposite ends
duct tape air gaps between pencil and hole
form fiberglass leaves to hanging ball
hang ball by taping top of pencil branch or ledge
let dry 2 days in full sun
cut leaf shapes out of fiberglass
detatch ball
cut fins into each fiberglass leaf
remove pencil and duct tape
sand ball
bondo for further unique shaping
let dry 2 days in full sun
sand ball
thread rod through holes
cut rod to size
fasten hardware
hang with aircraft cable
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TAIWAN FACADE spring 2013 | interactive facade concepts | violet whitney, SOFTlab, and Pentagram
SOFTlab was asked to design a facade for an existing building in Taiwan. The client hoped to engage the monumental scale of the car and create something dynamic. I worked on the concept, design and graphics for three of the facade schemes. The idea was to create something that
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could be constructed in a simple and standard way yet produce a result that is complex and unique. The scheme was broken into smaller section modules of the building to look at constructability.
module fabrication
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a dancing skeletal structure turns a flat facade into soft waves in Taiwan
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FREE WILL
T.E.T.O. PARK| TEACHER EARTH
TETO PARK spring 2010 | architecture.studio IV | instructor.milagros.zingoni
TETO Park is a park for downtown Avondale, Arizona. Originally an underused park ridden with crime, the site is shared with an existing Boys & Girls Club, and is in much need of facilities that can be shared by the diverse community demographics as well be designed to minimize crime at the park. By using cubism to abstract sounds prevalent at the site, sculptural forms
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are created which allow for flexibility and imagination to the people of Avondale. The un-prescriptive park allows for more impromptu activities, and allows the park to become what the people want it to be. A Teen Center sits behind the existing Boys & Girls Club, allowing for more security and creating transparency of activities of Avondaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teenagers.
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abstract forms create space of non-prescribed flexibility
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TEACHER EARTH spring 2011| architecture studio IV | instructor . marlene.imirzian | collaboration | kersten.harfst
In a rural suburb outside of Tucson, Arizona, the common youngster walks past manicured golf courses and stucco tract homes to reach school. Here they will spend another 7 hours in a room with hardly any windows listening to a federal lesson plan. At the end of class, most students return home, wait indoors playing video games and watching television until their parents return home around 6:00 p.m.
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The new elementary school is about using the natural desert landscape, currently ignored by the town, as an opportunity to engage students in a non-prescriptive lifestyle. Rather than waiting docilely for more lessons to force-fed, students are encouraged to figure things out through exploration, listening and questioning nature for answers.
the current education model plugs students into a prescriptive shove information down your throat type of learning
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in an arizona suburb, an elementary school immerses a tech-crazed generation in nature to teach them to think for themselves sans wikipedia
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The library and observatory afford panoramic views of the desert and connect students with the sky and the greater universe.
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The school runs parallel with a natural riparian, which leads to the Ocotillo Mountain Preserve.
courtyards (by grade) dentity for each class and ual connection with the ment.
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classrooms have large windows into shared courtyards inspiring learning from the earth
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A net of white polypropylene balls creates a comfortable connecting spine through the outdoors
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