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portfolioashley clark|undergraduate work
Children’s Cardiac HOSPITALChicago, IL
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Rural Studio GREENHOUSENewbern, AL
Nature TowerAubrun University, AL
Lake HOUSELake Martin, AL
PAGE 12 PAGE 22 PAGE 32
Bookstore FACADEOpelika, AL
Visual Prosthetic Optical Apparatus“VPOA” Discover
WatercolorsScenes from my travels
PAGE 42 PAGE 46 PAGE 50 PAGE 58
Experiential MappingIstanbul, Turkey
Children’s Cardiac HOSPITAL|chicago, IL4th year, Fall 2011
professor: Kevin Mooreduration: 15 weeks
This specialty hospital is designed to create interactive spaces that foster a sense of community and avoid a feelings of isolation. The exterior is playful and approachable while the interior is interactive, creating an inviting environment for children. To achieve these goals, scale became a crucial factor in the success if these spaces. Within the patient floors, a series of alternating double height family spaces allow physical connections with the inhabitants of other floors, providing views and creating interaction. They are designed to be inhabited as tight overlapping “bubbles” of space to encourage small communities within a larger complex building of users. The individual patient rooms also facilitate interaction at a smaller scale through the facade. Bubble-like windows of various sizes give each patient a unique experience within their room, while allowing them to engage with the building, neighbors, and the street.
Children’s Cardiac HOSPITAL|chicago, IL04
Patient Care Units20 beds/floor
Doctor’s offices / ICU
Dietary / Community Services
Prep / Hold / RecoveryCardiovascular Surgical floor
Lab / Administration / Sterile Supply / Pharmacy / Radiology
Entrance and Emergency
ground floor plan
patient floor plan
Rural Studio FARM: GREENHOUSE|newbern, AL3rd year, Fall 2010
professor: Elena Barthelduration: 15 weeks
team: Morgan Acino, Christine Bagdigian, Damian Bolden, Ashley Clark, Drew Craven, Kurt Funderburg, Brad Greene, Will Gregory, Kyle Johnson, Peter McInish, Michael Stricklin, Ashley Williams
As a manifesto of the “Rural Studio Farm,” the greenhouse is an example of self-efficiency, operating as a machine and help-ing the Rural Studio meet its food production goals during the winter months. The greenhouse is designed on an expandable 16-foot module system. A dogtrot connects the single by seed house with the triple bay greenhouse. As a solar greenhouse, we decided to use water as the primary thermal mass. Stored in the steel culverts, the water holds heat during the day and releases it at night to keep the plants warm. A berm on the north side insulates this wall while shielding the greenhouse from northern winds in the winter. The south roof is sloped to optimize winter sun exposure and allow rainwater collection into a concrete trough on the south side.
To test our design, we built a full-scale mockup of an 8ft section.
Rural Studio FARM: GREENHOUSE|newbern, AL12
Auburn University ARBORETUM: A NATURE TOWER2nd year, Spring 2010
professor: Christian Daggduration: 12 weeks
2nd PlaceAlabama Forestry Association“WOOD COMPETITON”
The nature tower is an educational facility designed for the arboretum on Auburn University’s campus. The program called for two learning classrooms for students and guest workshops, a gallery, event space and office space. Because the property and the trees are so precious, I choose to minimze the footprint and build up with a tower. This scheme helps create an interactive environment for learning with classrooms that overlook the trees. In additon, the towers becomes a landmark for the arboretum and the University, ushering people in from the community.
Reaching eighty feet tall, the seven stories provide exterior spaces emersed withing the branches, to teach students about the arboretum at many different elevations. Mimicking the vertical landscape, the wood skin emphasizes the verticality while directing views toward the arboretum.
Auburn University ARBORETUM: A NATURE TOWER22
Lake Martin HOUSE2nd year, Fall 2009
professor: Justin Millerduration: 10 weeks
Situated on a steep and narrow lake front property, this project takes advantage of the site to provide views to the lake throughout the home. The plan is organized in two bars with circulation through the center that connects the spaces. Level changes both divide the public and private spaces within the house and alter the way the inhabitant connects to the exterior. The top floor is for guests, the main level entirely public, and the lower level private, creating separation and privacy where appropriate and community where necessary. While some spaces look over or through other rooms, each has a view to the lake or street. In addition, a meditation space on the east side provides a quite oasis for the owner. This space is accessed between the main public level and the private lower level. Here water is collected from the sloping roofs to provide a quite meditative space.
Lake Martin HOUSE32
Bookstore FACADE|opelika, AL2nd year, Fall 2009
professor: Justin Millerduration: 3 weeks
This project addresses the problem of the facade, specifically, a bookstore facade for the city of opelika. On the existing site was a vacant building with a 25 ft wide northwest face on a corner lot. The challenge was to design two facades for this site, the northwest side and 10 ft of its adjacent southwest elevation.
To address these problems, my design focused on pattern, environmental factors, and a strong corner. I initially created a pattern with the stone, pushing and pulling blocks to create aperatures that are shielded from the sun in the summer months. Each of these moves is then reflected in the interior in some way, as a reading seat or shelf. To connect both facades i used a firm edge that is emphasized at the ground with a bench that wraps the corner.
Bookstore FACADE|opelika, AL42
VISUAL PROSTHETIC/OPTICAL APPARATUSDISCOVER: a pinhole camera 1st year, Fall 2008
professors: Margaret Fletcher Rusty Smithduration: 3 weeks
The goal of this project was to design and build a full scale, “readily portable” pinhole camera that is both a projector of a specific action’s attitude as well as a reflection of my own. As a premise, we studied anthropromorphism and how our sensual evaluation of people and things shapes our understanding. In turn we tend to imitate our creations, reciprocating the world we create. I carefully selected “discover” as the action that would generate the camera and its images:The image is the action. The action is the optical apparatus. The optical apparatus is the visual prosthetic. The visual prosthetic is the action. The action is the image.
VISUAL PROSTHETIC/OPTICAL APPARATUSDISCOVER: a pinhole camera
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“Istanbul Skyline”Study Abroad
Istanbul, TurkeySpring 2011Watercolor|scenes from my travels3rd year, 2011-2012
“Istanbul Skyline”Study Abroad
Istanbul, TurkeySpring 2011
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Watercolor|scenes from my travels
“Taskisla courtyard”Study Abroad
Istanbul, TurkeySpring 2011
“Caves of Cappadocia”Study AbroadIstanbul, TurkeySpring 2011
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“Maiden’s Tower”Study AbroadIstanbul, TurkeySpring 2011
“Istiklal”Study Abroad
Istanbul, TurkeySpring 2011
“Maiden’s Tower”Study AbroadIstanbul, TurkeySpring 2011
“Istiklal”Study Abroad
Istanbul, TurkeySpring 2011
“Magnolia Grove Slave House”Rural StudioNewbern, AL
Fall 2010
“Magnolia Grove Slave House”Rural StudioNewbern, AL
Fall 2010
Experiential Mapping|Istanbul, Turkey3rd year, Spring 2011
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Experiential Mapping|Istanbul, Turkey
ashley clark 3540 brookwood road | birmingham, al 35223 | [email protected] | 251.767.5971
education Auburn University | Auburn, AL School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture 2008-present Bachelor of Architecture | expected graduation May 2013 Bachelor of Interior Architecture | expected graduation May 2013 GPA: 3.81
University Honors College Rural Studio | Newbern, AL Fall 2010 Study Abroad | Istanbul, Turkey Spring 2011
Mountain Brook High School | Birmingham, AL Graduate, May 2008 GPA: 4.32
honors and awards Spirit of Auburn University Scholarship 2008-2012 Auburn Achievment Scholarship 2008-2012 W Warren and W Warren Junior Endowed Scholarship 2008-2009 John and Dodgie Shaffer School of Architeture Scholarship 2009-2010 Frank J Sindelar Scholarship in Architecture 2009-2010 Williams Blackstock Architecture Scholarship 2010-2011 second place | Alabama Wood Design Competition, “wood comp” Spring 2010 3rd year studio book award Spring 2011 Blackwell Prize for Drawing and Painting | second place Fall 2011
activities Gamma Phi Beta Sorority, member 2008-present CADC Ambassadors 2009-present publicity committe 2011-present The American Institute of Architecture Students 2008-present conference chair 2009-2010 FORUM 2011, Pheonix, AZ - delegate Dec 2011 South Quad Conferences - attendee 2008-present New Orleans, Savanna, Houston, San Antonio
leadership The American Institute of Architecture Students Chapter President 2011-2012 AIAS Honor Award: Auburn University Chapter Dec 2011 Community Service Award: Pumpkin Carve Grassroots Leadership Conference, Washington DC July 2011 AIAS South Quad Committee 2011-2012 AIAS Quad “POD” leader: AL, GA, FL chapters 2011-2012 National Elections Committe 2011-2012 Teaching Assistant for Justin Miller | Environmental Controls Fall 2011
experience Mountain Brook Community Church, nursery attendant 2007-2009 Viva the Chef cooking school 2008 summer cooking instructor, event facilitator
skills hand drafting AutoCAD Adobe InDesign sketching Google Sketchup Climate Consultant hand modeling Adobe Photoshop Ecotect laser cutter Adobe Illustrator Rhino
references Christian Dagg Justin Miller Assosiate Professor Assistant Professor Program Chair, Interior Architeture [email protected] [email protected]