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DESIGN PORTFOLIO selected works 2011-2015
Vice PresidentAlpha xi delta sorority
state college, pennsylvania
Elected to position by 105 members. Won most improved chapter of the Northeast award.
Honorable mentionPremio Piranesi international competition
rome, italy
Two week design competition to implement contemporary design into Hadrian’s Villa. Only American student on design team with four other Italian students.
Academic Achievement ChairAlpha xi delta sorority
state college, pennsylvania
Fall 2014
Achievements
Fall 2012-2013
Fall 2011-2012
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date of birth: 27 april 1992
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penn state universitybachelor of architecture
state college, pennsylvania
Minor in Environmental Inquiry. Affiliated with American Institute of Architecture Students and Green Building Alliance of Pittsburgh.
2010-2015
education
Pantheon institutesemester abroad
rome, italy
Urban design studio, Premio Piranesi competition.
Fall 2015
Elected to position by 105 members. Won national academic achievement award.
lauren borrelli
Pittsburgh History & LandmarksInternpittsburgh, pennsylvania
Led historical tours throughout downtown Pittsburgh. Mentored and assisted in a program intended to promote design aspiration amongst inner-city students ages 11-14.
EehrResearch Assistant
state college, pennsylvania
Researched and designed aging in place strategies that utilized a prefabricated kit of parts in existing homes.
(ENERGY EFFICIENT HOUSING RESEARCH)
perkins eastmanarchitecture intern
pittsburgh, pennsylvania
Produced drawings for a senior living facility in Seattle, Washington. Prepared presentations for senior living facilities in New York and Japan. Participated in an in-house competition for a temporary daycare in Mumbai, India.
PPG, Industriesarchitectural services intern
pittsburgh, pennsylvania
Aided co-workers with specifying glass for architects. Helped design marketing materials, web pages, and print publications. Assisted representatives with visits to architectural firms.
Summer 2014
Spring 2014
Summer 2013
Summer 2011
experience
EnglishNative
Frenchelementary
Italianelementary
Advanced
proficient
LANGUAGES
SKILLS
REvit, photoshop, illustrator, autocad, laser cutter,
diagramming, modeling
Rhino, indesign, grasshopper, sketchup, vray, hand
drafting, photography
RICHARD BEUKEVICE PRESIDENT OF FLAT GLASS, PPG [email protected]
john lingleysenior associate, perkins [email protected]
references
table of contents
+furniture+urbanism+vernacular+storefront+mixed use+master planning+public exhibition+multi-disciplinary+branding/corporate identity
design trends:
experiencing progression01 Pavilion Berlin, GermanyI
erosion02 park, museum nanjing, chinaI
seclusion by nature03 student center philadelphia, pa, usaI
transformable display04 jewelry store state college, pa, usaI
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Pavilion
Berlin, Germany
5th year spring
2 weeks
jamie cooper
experiencing progression01
The pavilion is designed for the 24th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The John Stewardson Memorial Competition in Architecture sought a transformative space of separation and connection. I created a space that wasn’t simply a memorial, but instead a design that would allow humans to experience and connect with the memories of the Berlin Wall and it’s fall.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the beginning of a progressive movement that brought unity amongst the diverse cultures of Germany. The pavilion is a single material with various slits that when folded, become an oscillating tunnel. How a society is more successful with the cohesion of diverse cultures is represented in how the oscillating panels would not be as powerful if not uniquely manipulated. The tunnel creates a united path of travel for all visitors while the remaining ground plane is manipulated to create spaces of lingering and congregation.
Pavilion Berlin, GermanyI
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Elected to position by 105 members. Won national academic achievement award.
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Berlin’s master plan has vantage points that extend to unite at the city’s monuments. The Memorial of the Murdered Jews of Europe is a series of similar points without a uniting source. The transformative space seeks to blend both morphologies.
concept development
An enclosed tunnel replicates a forced path of solidarity under East Germany reign.
Increasing the height to create a more inviting space.
Manipulation entices human Interaction.
site plan
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The project site lies 500 meters south of the Brandenburg Gate along the major road, Ebertstraße. The outline of the former Berlin wall is marked by a paving type on the street, acting as an axis of reflection for the human interaction with the architecture occurring at the Memorial of the Murdered Jews of Europe onto the project site.
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The site is lacking human interaction with the architecture, found across the road at
Site Interaction is created while a tree lined path for fast moving traffic remains on
axis
site section
site section
Pavilion Berlin, Germanyexperiencing progression I
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the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
the eastern edge of the site, a pattern reflected from across the road.
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The site is lacking human interaction with the architecture, found across the road at
Site Interaction is created while a tree lined path for fast moving traffic remains on
axis
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the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
the eastern edge of the site, a pattern reflected from across the road.
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enlarged site plan
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Berlin wall
Memorial to
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Jews of Europe
transformative
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brandenburg gate
Created in a second year, digital fabrications class and inspired the pavilion's form.
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Pavilion Berlin, Germanyexperiencing progression I
screen wall
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Ebertstra eß
01 single sheet of corten 02 slits of varying lengths
03 folded for creation of tunnel 04 ground plane manipulation
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The corten panels are manipulated to allow vegetation and humans to interact with the pavilion. Where panels are removed from the ground plane, vegetation has the potential to grow. Several panels are folded and twisted to create benches for lingering pedestrians.
Pavilion Berlin, Germanyexperiencing progression I
bench panels
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PARK AND MUSEUM
nanjing, china
5th year fall
8 weeks
james wines
ron henderson
EROSION02 Park, museum nanjing, chinaI
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The project was in an inter-disciplinary studio of landscape architecture and architecture students, with a strong focus on exploring the other’s discipline. The park is designed to commemorate the ancient brick wall running along the eastern perimeter of the site. The museum is to host any future excavations of the foundation of the ancient wall.
I explored how erosion is the battle of humans effects on non-humans, and non-humans effects on humans. The ancient wall represents this phenomenon. What began as a rigid, man made structure eroded over time to become a beautiful, organic monument. The park and museum intend to make humans aware of the erosion they are committing on the natural world and how nature tries to conquer that territory back.
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The project site lies within Qianliangshan Park, a UNESCO world heritage site to protect the ancient wall. Lying outside the ancient walls, but well within the expanded city today, the park is intended to be an escape from the surrounding urban environment.
Trees
site location
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site development
Developed
Existing
Points of InterestEntries
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Site Interaction is created while a tree lined path for fast moving traffic remains on
4the eastern edge of the site, a pattern reflected from across the road.
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park, museum nanjing, chinaerosion I
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site section I The paving is separated by portions of natural ground cover. The left portion represents nature dominating, a moat interrupts the rectilinear paving pattern. The right portion represents human dominating, the pedestrian pathway interrupts nature.
The perimeter of the site that lines the street is elevated higher with more dense vegetation to draw visitor’s focuses inwards. Colorful vegetation contrasts the city’s harsh environment.
site section II
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Site Interaction is created while a tree lined path for fast moving traffic remains on
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SECTION II
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park, museum nanjing, chinaerosion I
site concept development
Experience Enhancement.
Wandering Path.
Fast Traffic.
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SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
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Human interaction erodes a public path into the mass of the museum.CONCEPT MODEL
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park, museum nanjing, chinaerosion I
museum concept
Mass Path Museum
spatial section
Main EntranceLobbySecondary Entrance Floor Reveal
Ceiling Reveal Wall Reveal
Exhibition
Cafe
Gift Shop
Human interaction erodes a public pathway through the museum.
The glass encased pathway allows visitors to view the fast moving traffic while in the lobby. Various reveals allow visual connections to various other human activities.
exploded axonometric
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Exhibition
Cafe
Gift Shop
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Exhibition
Cafe
Gift Shop
Auditorium
Restroom
Administration
park, museum nanjing, chinaerosion I
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university student center
philadelphia, pa, usa
3rd year spring
14 weeks
sandra Staub
seclusion by nature03
The University of the Arts commissioned that we develop proposals for their future student center. It is intended to host a variety of spaces utilized by university students, faculty, and citizens of Philadelphia who want to partake in the visual arts of the school. It accompanies both the busy, urban environment of the surrounding city while providing seclusion spaces to escape from the chaos.
The heavy seclusion spaces clad in concrete panels can be seen through the contrasting light, glass curtain wall. The boxes break up the open plan and hang within spaces other spaces. By visitors making a visual connection with the seclusion space, they become intrigued to navigate towards the box.
student center philadelphia, pennsylvaniaI
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The project site lies along Broad Street, the main road of the theater district of Philadelphia. All of the University of the Arts buildings also sit on Broad Street. Directly across the street is the performance complex, the Kimmel Center. The student center is intended to host small performances and exhibitions that may accompany those within the Kimmel Center
Plan of seclusion boxes. Front elevation. Back Elevation.
site plan
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The streets parallel to Broad street host affordable housing for those interested in living in close proximity to the theatre district. The student center is intended to host private events for the university and public events for the rest of the community.
concept diagrams
Side elevation.
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student center philadelphia, paseclusion by nature I
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GROUND FLOOR
Entering from Broad Street, the auditorium box lies directly ahead. A lounge/conference room hangs into the lobby space.
floor plans
sections The private exhibition and auditorium are both double height to show their immense authority within the project. Reveals allow people to peek inside and see what events may be going on. It further intrigues them to work their way towards the seclusion boxes.
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1 - BATHROOMS3 - MECHANICAL4 - LOBBY5 - AUDITORIUM6 - COMPUTER STORE7 - LOUNGE/CONFERENCE8 - FOOD STORE9 - CAFE SEATING10 - CAFE11 - GALLERY12 - PRIVATE EXHIBITION13 - WORKSHOPS14 - SMALL PERFORMANCE15 - LIBRARY READING17 - OFFICES19 - POSSIBLE OPEN-AIR
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1ST FLOOR
4 - LOBBY5 - AUDITORIUM6 - COMPUTER STORE7 - LOUNGE/CONFERENCE8 - FOOD STORE
perspective from the lobby
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26Abstracts only the simple shapes of the building to show the floating nature of the boxes.concept model
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student center philadelphia, paseclusion by nature I
28Experimenting with various facade types for enhancement of the boxes from both the interior and exterior.process concept models
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wall section detail The connection details between the glass curtain wall and concrete panels.
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student center philadelphia, paseclusion by nature I
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egress diagram
south elevation
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jewelry store
state college, PA, usa
2nd year fall
6 weeks
jamie cooper
transformable display04
The store is designed to display geometric patterned jewelry. I wanted to replicate the transformative aspects of geometries. Seeing a single part of a geometric pattern on it’s own is different than seeing it collaborated into a pattern. The partitions and mullions of the exterior facade create a three dimensional storefront. The storefront lines up once directly in front. However, it has the possibility to morph as pedestrians of different speeds walk by.
The white marble and stucco keep a minimalist feel that draws attention to the geometries created and the jewelry on display. As my very first architectural design project, it was a great opportunity to experiment with brand identity and furniture design.
jewelry store state college, pennsylvaniaI
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The project site lies on College Avenue, the busiest street running through downtown State College. Located in a college town for Penn State University, the jewelry store replaces an extremely small, college merchandise store. The storefront design utilizes datum lines along the street front, similar to the exploration of line continuation between color blocks and shapes created from the lines in the painting exploration activity.
Jef7rey Hildner painting that inspired the model explorations.
Stereotomic model exploration of subtracting mass.
Tectonic model exploration of adding mass.
street elevation
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concept development
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The displaced partitions serve as program separators. When viewed straight on, a geometric pattern is created.
perspective
plan
jewelry store state college, patransformable display I
The spanning beams and placement of partitions separates the public displace in the from the semi-public seating and repair station in the back. A connecting pathway runs from the entry along the side of the store, with various hanging displays along the right wall.
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free standing display
seating area
partition
axonometric
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wall display
wall display
entrance
Explores the visual effects of displacing planes of similar form.parti model
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01 glass display box
03 folded marble II
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02 folded marble i
free standing display design
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The folding of materials was explored in both the wall and free standing displays. The folded components are white marble to keep with the simple color palate of the store and draw the attention to the simple geometric designs occurring.
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standing display
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THANK YOU!lauren borrelli