Zach Coffey zjc0006@auburn.edu (256) 298-0390 201 Walter Street Boaz, AL 35957
Zach Coffey undergraduate portfolio 2017 – 2021
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Heavy Masses Fall 2018
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Core Museum Fall 2020
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Sliding Spaces Fall 2019
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Flaoting Sawtooth Fall 2017
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Personal Works Summer 2018
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Fall 2018 Concrete Competition
Heavy Masses
Interacting with The Walls Location: Auburn, AL Project: Architecture Design Program: Concrete Compition Term: Fall 2018 Concrete Comp was based off of a LGWN Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation for Auburn University. The challenge is developing a building design that uses concrete as the primary building material either for a skin, structure, or texture. One that explores concrete’s plasticity, longevity, flexibility, and other possibilities or limitations inherent in the material. The design is on the corner of South College Street and East Samford Ave in Auburn, AL.
Perspective view between South College St. and East Samford Ave
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Fall 2018 Concrete Competition
The 3-foot-thick white concrete walls has defined the structure, spaces, and circulation of the AI Innovation Building. The site plan shows the context around and allows a bird;s eye perspective of the surrounding buildings.
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Fall 2018 Concrete Competition
The Heavy Masses was constructed with the core spaces connected to the massing walls, and the surrounding space be enclosed with lighter materials like glass and mullions. These walls have apertures in them that you can site in or stand in.
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The arrows indicate the public and private entrance to the building and how people migrate through.
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Fall 2018 Concrete Competition
From looking outside on South College Street, you can look through the dining hall to the green area through the building.
By extruding the mass wall hides the more private entrance and directs the public into the building, into the Public Entrance. From the Public Entrance is the Commercial Area to the right, the elevator with grand staircase ahead, and the Private Entrance to the left.
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Fall 2018 Concrete Competition
From the Private Entrance is the Dining Hall ahead and the Presentation Area to the left.
Section AA A perspective section through the private entrance and intermediate spaces. This shows the vertical circulation and how the heavy walls inpact the spaces.
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Looking from the green area to South College Street, you can look into the dining hall and onto the street.
Section BB The perspective section throuth the presentation area and lab. Shows the vertical height of these spaces and voids in the walls to have visual connections.
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Fall 2020 Atlanta Art Center
Core Museum Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Location: Atlanta, GA Project: Architecture Design Program: Atlanta Art Center Term: Fall 2020 The Core Museum in Atlanta is a new location and concept for the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. The old location, in the historic office institution, is relocated to the North Avenue Transit Station. The site incorporates a museum and public transit hub that integrates with one another. Splitting the building into two, museum to the east and the utility building to the west, allows the north south connection of the AT&T Plaza (North) and the Bank of America Plaza (South). This led to a core wall with a ramp as the main circulation to the designated zones.
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W Peachtree St NW and North Ave NE perspective
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Fall 2020 Atlanta Art Center
Process
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North and South Connection
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Utilities
Core Wall as Circulation
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Final Ideration
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Fall 2020 Atlanta Art Center
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Looking from the Center Corridor North
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Looking at Below Ground Gallery Perspective View
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Fall 2019 Chattanooga K-5 School
Sliding Spaces Urbanized Schooling
Location: Chattanooga, TN Project: Architecture Design Program: Chattanooga K-5 School Term: Fall 2019
The S.T.E.A.M elementary school is influenced by the learning activity and playfulness of these activities. The urban context is a densely populated and crowded metropolitan. Just like our site, it is joined by a hustling street and antique buildings. The site analysis showed that Cherry Street was the safest and quietest of the two other streets.
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Urban Context
Cherry Street was the best interaction and entrance point because of the low traffic and flat terrain.
Concept
These subtracted volumes demonstrate the space opportunities available.
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Fall 2019 Chattanooga K-5 School
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A generous offload entrance area provided ample room for the large entering and exiting students. The curved articulated colorful wall provides a pathway through the cafeteria and onto the grand staircase.
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gymnasium entrance admininstration cafeteria maker space first grade kindergraten
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Cafeteria view to Grand Stair Case with colored wall
The bookshelves rise, fall, and have holes to provide vanishing points looking onto the media center and through to the play area.
Fifth Grade Private Green Area just up the Grand Staircase
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The third floor provides the media space and play area. Throughout the school the hallways are shifting and articulating to provide space for group gathering to not disturbed the flow of circulation. The exterior follows the flow of playfulness by pushing and pulling the façade to provide depth and experience the classrooms.
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maker space play ground library mechanical second grade maker space third grade fourth grade art studio music studio fivth grade green space
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The section shows the first and second floor and the gym. Also shows the relationship to library and play area above the gym.
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Fall 2019 Chattanooga K-5 School
Program
The program diagram shows how the school works and placement of the programs. The diagram also shows the 3D contect of the spaces. 32
Sliding Spaces
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The entrance space for all the loading and unloading of faculty and students. This provides a waiting area, a look into the gym, and a water fiture along a green brick wall.
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Fall 2019 Chattanooga K-5 School
Aluminum-Framed Entrances and Storefronts
Water Repellants Unbonded Post-Tensioned Concrete Thermal Insulation Elastomeric Membrane Roofing
Sheathing Gypsum Board Thermal Insulation Metal Wall Panels Sheet Metal Flashing and Trim
Metal Framing Skylights
Sheathing Non-Structural Metal Framing Thermal Insulation Gypsum Board Self-Adhering Sheet Waterproofing Unbonded Post-Tensioned Concrete Cast In-Place Concrete
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Detail wall section looking at classroom orientation and shifting of rooms.
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Fall 2017 Bike Hub
Floating Sawtooth An Approach to a Bike Station Location: Auburn, AL Project: Architecture Design Program: Bike Hub Term: Fall 2017
The bike hub is to design a spacious place for Auburn bikers to relax, shower, and/or repair bikes. The design challenge is a heavy slope with a minimal long narrow space. Beside Dudley or the shop for Dudley and following the pathway that is adjacent to Dudley.
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Fall 2017 Bike Hub
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Dudley Hall Dudley Shop bike shop shower locker room restroom rest shop
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Digging down and building up was a necessity. Utilizing a stept down function with a retailing wall, help to define the major program placements. So, the design challenge was now to build a roof to let light in and keep rain out. A sawtooth roof was the design challenge so to let as much light in as possible.
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Fall 2017 Bike Hub
Front View of Bike Hub to show the entrance perspective view.
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Back View of Bike Hub going up the hill.
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Fall 2017 Bike Hub
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Fall 2017 Bike Hub
View of Sawtooth Roof and a look inside the Bike Hub
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View of Overlapping Roof and the seperation of walkway to building
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Summer 2019 Architecture Projects
Mackintosh Ingram Chair A Work in Wood
Location: Newbern, AL Project: Architecture Design Program: Design Build Term: Spring 2019
The project was to research, figure out, and build a famous chair. My group (Hilary Bird and George Slaughter) researched who built the chiar and why. The Mackintosh Ingram Chair was designed for a dining room in Glasco, Scotland for Catherine Cranston in her tearoom.Once you figure out how to build the chair, then you can start to build the 1 to 1 replica chair.
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Other Works
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Detail of Aprons attaching to Back Leg
Detail of Aprons attaching to Front Leg
Side view of Chair
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Summer 2019 Architecture Projects
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Other Works
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Wood Appears
Scanning Wood
Measure the Wood
Rough Cut Wood
Joint as Needed
Plane Faces Down
Rip to Width
Print 1:1 Template
Laminate Together
Cut Curves
Sand Curves to Line
Mark Mortises
Cut Mortises
Glue Mortises and Tenons
Put Finish On
On the left is an exploded axon of the components of the chair. Highlighted in blue are the components were talking about. Above are sketches that were made to describe how the chair was assembled. This is a brief example of many sketches that describe every detail of the chair. These sketch analysis the wood selection to finishing.
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Summer 2019 Architecture Projects
The Egg Table Unique Furniture Design Location: Boaz, AL Project: Furniture Design Program: Design Build Term: Summer 2019
This was a challenge to design a piece of furniture that could hold extreme load but feel light. The challenge was making light without compromising the structural integrity of the piece. Usually the aprons that go across is fat on the ends and thin in the center, but this design makes the center fat and the ends thin. The load coming from the object would put more load on the center then distribute towards the ends and into the legs. This follows all through the carcass for continuity and for additional strength.
Front view of table and shows the design ambition.
Other Works
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Perspective view of table
Perspective view of table showing the side that has an opposite design than the front.
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Summer 2019 Architecture Projects
Extorior Room Unique Deck Design Location: Boaz, AL Project: Deck Design Program: Design Build Term: Summer 2019 The challenge was to build a 14’ x 32’ deck on the backside of a Ranch style home. Additionally, the clients wanted a hot tube on the second half of the deck with a covering. Previously there was a 10’ x 14’ deck from the 1980’s that was poorly maintained and poorly crafted. To save money and help the amount of material need, the design went into a cantilever system.
Perspective View of Deck
Other Works
Perspective of Original Deck
Steps of Original Deck
Perspective View of Deck
Underneath the Deck
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Summer 2019 Architecture Projects
14’ was the finished deck width so 2x10 would have been adequate for the span at the time with 16” on center for the first half and 12” for the second. With a cantilever it required 2x8 instead that rested on a double 2x12 girder on 6x6 post at 10’ and over hanged 4’. Doing everything to code from 3’ deep post to hurricane straps at each joist.
Images to the Right: These are photos of processes work on the new deck. Everything from getting the lumber to the final product. Bottom Left Image: Original Deck Bottom Right Image: New Deck
Old deck looking from the side.
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Lumber Arrives
Setting Post
Aligning Post
Setting Blocking
Finishing Pad
Finishing Decking
Roof Structure
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Finished deck looking from the side.
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- AUBURN UNIVERSITY -
ZACH COFFEY ENTRY-LEVEL ARCHITECT
ACADEMIC 2010 - 2014 2013
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
at Boaz High School
BUILDING SCIENCE TECH DEGREE
at Marshall County Tech School
2014 - 2017 ABOUT I define myself as a young architect engaged in sustainable and long-lasting designs. My goal is to continually expand my design skills and knowledge in architecture and design. Architecture to me is about creating and inspiring spaces that affect people and their behaviors.
GENERAL EDUCATION with ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
at Snead State Community College
2017 - 2021
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE DEGREE
at Auburn University
EXPERIENCE INTERN at FUQUA & PARTNERS ARCHITECTS Worked at Fuqua & Partners for the Summer of 2019. Developed leadership skills, meeting with design team, building code analysis, 2-D and 3-D aided design software, renewed submittles, and review building progress.
BASIC INFO Name: Zachary Jeff Scott Coffey Born: 1th May 1995 Birth Place: Boaz, AL Final GPA: 3.5
AWARDS 2017-2020
DEAN’S LIST
May 2018
OUTSTANDING STUDENT
Dec. 2018
HONORED MENTION
May 2019
WINNER OF RURAL STUDIO CHAIR COMPETITION
CONTACT Email: zjc0006@auburn.edu Phone: (256) 298-0390 TOOLS AutoCAD Rhino Photoshop Indesign Illustrator
Revit SketchUp Grasshopper Word Powerpoint
CAPABILITES / SKILLS
Professional
Personal
Team Management Project Management Photography Public Relations Time Management Client Oriented
Planning Team Play Creative Spirit Organized Good Listener Positive Friendly Knowledgeable Budgeting Planning