lindsey briceno_portfolio
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portfolio of works from my undergraduate and graduate school in ArchitectureTRANSCRIPT
LINDSEY BRICENO [email protected] 318.230.1462
“When The Intellectual Realm, The Realm Of Ideas, Is In Balance With Experiential Realm, The Realm Of Phenomena, Form Is Animated With Meaning. In This Balance, Architecture Has Both Intellectual And Physical Intensity, With The Potential To Touch Mind, Eye, And Soul.”
- Steven Holl
This I believe: architecture should be an experience of emotion and senses. I think architecture is an emotional experience because as we design we always think about how a space is going to make a person feel. There is a relationship to how a space feels to how someone experiences it. I believe that as we design its more than making a building look cool but how the inside designs the outside. There are certain relationships we make ourselves to architecture and how we remember the experiences in them. This is the social aspect of design and the role that it plays in people’s lives. There is a way that we can change a person’s life with architecture but not how it stands out on a block but maybe how it fits in. That to me is what makes this career a path of importance and rarity because its takes a sense of involvement into people lives to truly appreciate the craft that evokes these emotions. The relevance to care in designing is a main focus of mine and I want to make a difference in the way people experi-ence buildings and admire them. There is a story behind everything we design and a certain amount of emotional instinct that allows us to create something that cares about the person as much as we hope the people will care about it in return. This is the influence and personal involvement that separates good work from great work within my understanding because a space that has the right to be experience but forgotten is not evoking the right emotions and senses to be remembered and talked about. The dialogue of description is what makes the emotional, physical, and sensorial qualities of the building come to life. Ultimately, architecture is about experience of senses, visually, through sound, touching, hearing. This common link is in every piece of archi-tecture, good and bad, descriptively that is what we talk about when we revisit them. I want to feel what the designer was think-ing when they made choices of materiality, lighting, views, noise, everything that went into it, those are the decisions that make a building. There is a certain respect that the knowledge of architecture can give to other architects and their work, but there is an even bigger respect when someone who has no idea the language of a building can really understand the dynamics that we try and instill. The sensorial interconnection within this is linked to our emotions towards them as well. The recognition of how a building makes us feel is not anything an architect can predict but an evident sense of knowing is how we relate emotions and senses to the buildings we create.
design philosophy
bath house
ila headquarters
habitat for humanitydesign-build
global studio
lianyugang development
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international trade marketinternational business hotel
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conceptin this bath house nature is treated as a sectional relationship & the qualities that make it unique are separated & experienced individually through the senses. at the end of the pavilion everything is experienced together to show the connection back to each other & how each impacts the other.
driftwood sectional study
site plan
floor plan
1building as sectional sense experience
steps of bathouse experience1
sight is obstructed, the sound of the water is amplified
2slight sight, the sense of touch is
amplified because lack of other senses to get around
3 the sense of sight is active but the sense of sound is
now muffled to enhance sight
4the ultimate where the sectioned experiences come
together to create the whole sensual experience
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lake claiborne state park
man-made lake in ruston, louisiana where nature trails & mountain biking are preva-lent activities but areas to enjoy the lake are lacking
constructionthe construction of the bathing house was
meant to blend into the natural surroundings & to draw attention to the senses. by keeping the elements of the pavilion simple the experi-ence becomes stripped away and the intention
to focus on nature becomes superior.
natural wood
tube steelconcrete separators
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The International Longshoreman’s Association
past present
Brooklyn Navy Yardsite
dedicated to making sure that the history of the docks & the men that work them, is preserved & kept alive, as well as keeping the
current docks running & up to date. The International Long-shoremen’s Association, AFL-CIO is the largest union of maritime workers in North America, representing upwards of 65,000 long-
shoremen on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, Great Lakes, major U.S. rivers, Puerto Rico and Eastern Canada.
concept
creating a timelinethe connections to the past, present, & future longshore-man through the circulation patterns & the views it sets up, allows the visitor to understand the timeline of the ILA & the importance these longshoreman had on the building of the city around it. the patterns of circulation are designed to capture points in vision that can be refer-enced back to a point in time.
PASTwhere the ship building & dock
loading was the business of the city
PRESENTthe cross point between what
the longshoreman helped create & where the industry is
going
FUTUREmanhattan skyline industry
shifts to across the river to tall buildings
process sketches
view cones floorplan
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annex
office
museum
sectionsect
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outdoor gallery
visual linkagethe strong linear design of the ILA headquarters was meant to pay tribute to the elongated Brooklyn navy yard as well as to keep with the language of the water to the building so that every view point was a linkage to the harbour and river that made both New York and Brooklyn the large booming cities that they are today.
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outdoor gallery program analysisthe program was divided into 3 major groups and
with the ILA needing an office as well as a museum to highlight the history, there is also a large annex for conventions and union meetings that were crucial to
keeping the Longshoreman’s name active and alive.
annex ila office museum
bridge connection linear datum view
section a-a
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team members20 students 6 months $44,000 budgetRuston, Louisiana
lindsey briceno.billy burks.mary chatherine brown.kyle culver.sara offutt.daniel clark.britney wilson.jennifer risley.jordan brown.nick brown. jaymes hanus.leah broadway.scott dill.richard christian.angelica rodriguez. brandon watson.dj foy.victoria christenson.chad reeves.ward bryant
professorsrobert brooks.kevin stevens
habitech 2010 is an organization committed to the design of a new standard of economical & affordable housing. this housing combines modu-
lar building systems. prefabricated construction methods, & an environ-mentally responsible approach. as aspiring architects, we wish to benefit a
family, habitat for humanity, & ourselves with our effort to create a flexible & sustainable home.
vernacular designwith keeping with the Louisiana Vernacular the house was
designed on the long narrow site with a ‘shot-gun’ style that allows for visual connection from the front to the back and the programmatic elements then spreading off of that native datum
mission statement:
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Habitat for Humanity
shotgun style
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responsibilities within the project:HVAC design & installationon site daily construction activitiesdesigning, fabricating & installing the ‘ribbon’ paneling systemconstruction drawingsclient consultations
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process through the construction process we, the students, were guided by
our professors as to make sure the construction process was as genuine & insightful but also as hands-off as possible as to allow us to
truly experience the ideas of a design-build project . From week to week the process of constructed this 1,500 sq. ft. house was
completely in the students hands & through the learning curve that comes with this type of project we were able to develop & exceed in
the construction & design aspect of the project.
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concepta linking element that connects the ‘core’ visually. through the use of the same material the ribbon allows the user to notice the transition from shelving to lighting panel & than back to shelving again.
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‘core’ the core is the element in the house where all the mechanical & plumb-ing where located as to localize piping and make construction more sensible
ribbon panels in the floor plan
exploded axon detail
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constructionthe ribbon paneling system was constructed
off site in a warehouse using a CNC router for the large ceiling pieces & a hand router for the
smaller shelving pieces. the pieces were then assembled on site to make sure the pieces were
cohesive & sturdy. every piece was different with the shelving pieces being drilled directly
into the blocking while the ceiling panels were suspended from 2x4s to allow for the ambient
light to show through the acrylic inserts.
insulation
panel behind
metal bracket
1x4 backing
2x6 blocking
acrylic inserts
detail of ribbon shelving
section through ‘core’
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innovative & traditional communication technologies were used to test the advantages & problems with
visual communication
global studio initiative Global Studio was a collaborative effort designed to explore the global aspect of Architecture that is becoming more prevalent in our profession. Students from the University of Kansas located in Beijing, Paris, & Lawrence, Kansas, all developed a program & schematic design with the desire to be a catalyst on how communication across the world can be interpreted & used to better Architecture & also to explore ideas of Architecture through technology. This program was an exper-imental challenge to the students, the programs that are familiar, and also to the instruments that are common for design communication, all with the hopes that the idea of GLOBAL architecture
could be explored.
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beijing, china
lawrence, ks
paris, france
Beijing team exchanged site information only through talking about it to the other teams
Sketches and ideas develop independently and then brought together to discuss shared ideas
Final iterations developed by breaking apart tasks across the 3 locations & brought back together for final review
Collaborative Design Process
Beijing axis locationthe neighborhoods, or hutongs, that
surround the chosen site were a integral part of the design develop-ment for this project, a traditional
hutong site was used to incorporate the existing cultures that have been
created by the people of Beijing
responsibilities within the projectthroughout the project I & another student developed the program for this project
as well as the responsibility of modeling & presenting to the other teams.
level 1
site situated just left of the Beijing axis
buildings surrounding the site that are part of an old temple
Beijing axis that runs through the Forbidden City & through the significant landmarks that make up Beijing’s history
courtyard in front of the site where members of the local hutong com-munity gathered
drum tower
bell tower
level 2
program1 cafe 2 exhibition space 3 dorms 4 hutong house 5 bathrooms 6 market 7 pin-up space 8 studio 9 outdoor exhibition space
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site surroundings
site
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the inspiration and place-
ment of the programmatic elements with
the site & shows homage
to the tradi-tional aspects
of the ‘hutong’ neighbor-
hoods
Greenspace above Cafeis a roof garden right off
of the studio and pro-vides a lookout for the
students visiting with a view onto traditional
Beijing
Roof Structurepatterned with opacities
based on the programmatic elements allows for varying
degrees of light as well as patterning of shadows
LianYuGang China DevelopmentThe East China International Commodity Trade Center Business Hotel and Convention Hall and Product Market are part of a large development in Lian Yu Gang, China with a wide variety of programmatic elements including Convention Center & Expo & also a market that is meant to draw the consumer through the center interior gardens while linking them through bridges and large atriums. The Hotel wand Convention Center are at the adjoining lot and are representative to the dynamic architecture that both Aedas and China are known for. Designed after elements from nature, the development pays homage to them through their facades and spacial quality always in recognition to the quality that the Chinese people give to nature and the importance of it in everyone’s life. site
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site LianYuGang, Jiangsu, China
conceptnatural elements surround the site in luanyugang & so the building concept was designed from elements in nature. the ideas of inward looking were the driving
concept behind the design of broken rocks that are jagged on the interior but smooth and clean on the outside as well as open and full of glazing to also allow
those views to be into the buildings as well as out of them
International Trade Center & MarketThe program developed for these Product Markets was to be warehouse like buildings that have a open, free-flow feeling to the circulation as well as the kiosks inside. They are all surroundings large center atriums that flood the space with light and acts as a gathering space inside the buildings. There is also a bridge connection from each of the buildings to the other allowing for visual connections to be established both vertically and hori-zontally. Each building’s program depicts the goods sold inside of it, from Electronics, Food, & Clothes, the varying items allow for the consumer to take the paths to different experiences & pushes the consumer to experi-ence each building.
site plan
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I started on this project developing the elevations on all eight buildings, modeling the mullions and working with the materials that made up the facades. I also did the finishing images for the Schematic Design booklet.
responsibilities within the projectI started on this project right before Final Schematic Design Submittals and became part of the final design work with the elevations, through the glazing and materials and also helped bring the drawings up to date and presentation quality in order to secure the bid and design initiative.
building D2
east elevation
west elevation
north elevation
south elevation
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site & surrounding buildings
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diagramsthe site diagrams show circulation both vehicular, and bike, as well as the circulation paths in case of fire, landscaping is also
shown because the landscape through the pathways were critical to the development and visualization of the concept
behind the buildings.
courtyard spaceatrium
conceptThe International Hotel & Convention Center is taken from the natural elements
that surround the site in Lianyugang, China. the sandwich of rock beds that are along the river create layers of sediment and cracks creating a staggered affect which
is implemented in the design of the Hotel. the Zinc panel facade are layered in a continuous motion throughout the building never breaking apart or separating but
instead keeping a visual connection throughout the building.
International Buisness Hotel The program for the International Hotel was designed to service the Convention Expo adjacent to the property & also houses its own large Conference Centers and Ballroom for gatherings. Luxury hotel rooms are encased within the ribbon facade & also boasts a large Presentational suite at the top of the Hotel with views connecting the residents back to the river and driving concept. There is also a bridge that links it to the Expo and outdoor terrace area with pool and bar.
skin process sketch
site plan
responsibilities within the projectAs a part of the team for designing & modeling this Business Hotel I worked with my team to develop the Zinc ribbon facade that envelopes the large glazed floors. I modeled & designed the ribbon facade through several iterations & critiques by both my team members and client’s input. We developed the skin designed to compliment the Convention Center and to play homage to the natural surroundings of layered rock and ground work that surrounds the site. I also devel-oped the landscape plan fro the Convention Center and did the finished elevation drawings for the submittal set while continually participating in team critiques & discussions on the overall design of the facade.
conceptthe continuous nature of the zinc facade was to show unity through the entire building and for it never to break but instead wrap the large glass facade and sandwich them in between the zinc floors. the main ribbon part around the Hotel is split into two parts allowing them to shift in and out from each other allowing glazing and openings to reveal themselves.
skin
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north elevation
south elevation
site
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diagramsthe site diagrams show the circulation paths throughout both the international business hotel
as well as the neighboring Convention Expo Hall, there are also fire paths shown for emer-gency vehicles & evacuation. Zoning for parking & vehicular access are important to the
movement around the site & how your experience the building
elev
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site plan
email: [email protected] phone: 318.230.1462