Kristin_Slavin_Portfolio

KRISTIN SLAVIN

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FOLDING STUDIO


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August- December 2006

Project OverviewThe purpose of this project was to introduce us to the process of design. We started with folding and analyzing paper, moved to analyzing the site, and finished with altering the fold to create a park/plaza area in a current parking lot on the campus of Texas Tech University.

ProcessFoldingUsing Sophia Vyzoviti’s Folding Archi-tecture as our original inspiration, we began to explore the opportunities that folding paper offered us. We started with 20 sheets of letter sized paper, and folded them each in a unique way, after which we narrowed our selection down to the most inter-esting 5. We began to study and analyze the folds along with the steps taken to create it.

OverlaysOnce we picked the best fold based on the analysis done, we began to find ways of applying it to the site. By looking at different ways of stretching, magnifying, and repeating the fold on the site, we could gain a more thor-ough understanding of the relation-ships and proportions of the fold itself.

FOLDING STUDIO


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ApplicationSite AnalysisOur site was located on a current parking lot in the middle of Texas Tech University’s campus. In analyzing the site, we looked at the surrounding buildings, which included the adminis-tration building to the North, the student union to the South, and a couple of academic buildings on the East and West sides. Each of these buildings projected different types and strengths of forces across the lot, such as an axis from the administration building and street intersections.

AlterationsUsing the lines, planes, and volumes projected across the site, we altered our fold on the site to help bring the context into the space. This not only allows a visual connection, but also pedestrian walkways through the middle of the site, which is currently lacking in this busy section of campus.

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BEBOP STUDIOJanuary- May 2007


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January- May 2007

Project OverviewThis project uses the analysis of song and music composition to look at architectonics. While the final product was not a building, the project emphasized joints and connections, looking into how products of any kind, including buildings, are put together.

AnalysisCollageI then collaged the Instruments used in the song, combining patent drawing of them and using erasure to blend them together. While weaving these drawings together, I used the breaks from the song analysis and the delicacy of the lines to guide my erasure. I then color encoded the collage, which added a layer of complexity to the drawing.

Leap FrogFirst, I analyzed the jazz song Leap Frog by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Listening to different patterns in the song allowed me to pick out specific instruments and sections of the song. I translated these pieces of the song into a graphic representation.

BEBOP STUDIOJanuary- May 2007


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Three Dimensional CollageI started modeling in 3-dimensions the collages that I color encoded, and came up with several different options from the same drawings. The delicacy and the tension from the song analysis continued to influence my decisions while creating these collages. Once I had several alternatives, I chose 3 and combined them into a single architec-tonic element, making sure every joint was made the way it would be built.

POETICS


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January- May 2008

Project OverviewThe poetics of computers was a class created to push the limits of current technology in the field today. Using a variety of programs, including Photo-shop, Illustrator, and formZ, we created architectonic structures with an emphasis on the quality of representa-tion. The goal was to display what modern technology can add to the practice today, whether in rendering or form creation.

ProcessLight BoxTo produce as many different pictures as possible, we created a light box, no larger than 12”x24”x18”. During a 3 hour period, we took as many photo-graphs as possible of our box, with as much variation in lighting as possible. After we printed these pictures, we traced over them with certain guide-lines in mind, such as orthogonal, diagonal, tension and compression.

Color EncodingWe digitized the traces and started color encoding them. I used a simple pallet of greys, black and red. This enabled the same drawing to have many different variations, giving us many options later.

ExtrusionsUsing the color encoded files, we started to extrude and manipulate forms into a 3-d model in formZ.

POETICS


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January- May 2008

Final ProductThe final product was a combination of the extruded models. I used one model as the “site” or the ground in which our object sat, and three other models combined and distorted to create the object itself. Once the object was created, different render-ing and lighting techniques were used to create these images.

PDX CEMENT COMPETITION


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January- May 2008

Project OverviewThis was the 2008 Portland Cement Competition. It called for a recycling center in your current city (Lubbock, TX) on a self selected site that you determined appropriate. The building had to demonstrate how concrete could be used in a sustainable fashion.

DesignFlowThere are two systems in the recycling center, public and non-public. Berms are introduced to emphasize the separation of these systems and extend the curve of the building into the landscape. The public zone has a one way driveway, beginning the flow of visiting the building. There is a drop off area in addition to parking. The public area within the building has a glass wall to display the recycling process, allowing visual interaction along the walkway. The non-public zone has an entrance where the trucks and employees enter. The warehouse area has four sections; drop off, sorting, processing, and baling. There are four roof systems and floor depths, each corresponding with a different func-tion. The breaks in the roof allow for an even distribution of natural light and air ventilation throughout the building. The recycling progresses from the drop off at the North end to the pick-up at the South end.

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COURTYARD HOUSE STUDIO


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May- July 2008

Project OverviewThis project, which was produced in Europe during study abroad, was located in Seville, Spain. It focused on housing types in Spain, and integrating new ideas into an old city. The restric-tions of the site and the building codes in the area were realistic for a project being built today.

SiteWorking in a city like Seville, Spain has constraints that we don’t often see in the united States. The site for this house was in downtown where every-thing was already built up. All of the buildings share walls with their neigh-bors, and working within the con-straints of the misshapen property can be a challenge. In addition to the immediate site, the South wall was shared with a church, an important aspect of Spanish culture.

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COURTYARD HOUSE STUDIO


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BuildingIn Spain natural ventilation is necessary because homes aren’t air condi-tioned. Courtyards also allow natural light into the dwelling. This house, designed for a photographer, acknowledges this Spanish tradition with two courtyards, and has pivoting walls to cross ventilate.

The front facade faces an alley that people from the area walk down every day, making privacy on the bottom level important. Using opaque glass panels hung in front of a clear glass wall allows light to enter into the photographer’s gallery, but keeps out direct views. On the top floor clear and opaque glass strategically placed allows him a view of the city while still maintaining privacy.

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MOSIER COMMUNITY SCHOOL


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September- December 2009

Project OverviewMossier, a small town of less than 500 people in the Columbia River Gorge, is a community that values education and understands the importance of school as the glue to their community. Mosier Community School, currently a K-6 school, is a part of the Dalles School District. Because it is removed from the rest of the schools, however, the Dalles were going to abandon MCS and bring those kids to existing elementary schools. Knowing that small towns rely on schools to hold the community together, the people of Mosier got together and argued for MCS to remain open as a charter school. The school, with its inovative curriculum and community support, has been a huge success, and is looking to add a new middle school to their campus, which would both strengthen the current program and relieve the overcrowding currently happening in the Dalles schools.

SiteThe site chosen is behind the existing school on a hillside covered with natural vegitation, including a floor of poison oak. Using the site helps give value to land that the school already owns by making it usable space, while allowing for a separation between elementary and middle school children and a design solution for the currently inefficient circulation and parking system.

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September- December 2009

DesignThere are two aspects to this school, the community and the students. To allow for the community to access the library, computer room, and art room during non-school hours, the more public part of the building was given a strong civic presence at ground level, welcoming everyone in. As people travel farther up, they get progressively more private, allowing for controlled access for security and giving personal identity to the students and their space.

To fit the innovative curriculum, a new type of classroom was created with sustainability and small group spaces in mind. These learning pavilions give each classroom a flexible, yet unique space, each with an outdoor class-room on a private deck looking out over the existing school into the Gorge. Transparency between the indoor and outdoor classrooms allow them to feel more connected, as if the students were learning in a nature pavilion rather than a structured classroom. Breakout spaces in the back allow for more intimate group learning activities, and a clearstory window to the South allows natural daylight to fill the space and air to cross ventilate. This connection to nature is in the spirit of the Pacific Northwest, and the sustainable build-ing will help educate the students further.

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INFO BOX STUDIO


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Project OverviewThe Info Box is a building in originally sited in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany. It’s program was a commu-nity building to inform the public about the construction happening in the area. It was to be a temporary struc-ture that could be easily disassembled and reassembled in another location when the construction there was finished.

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Site/ ProgramAn info box is a temporary building built to inform people about a subject. The subject for this building was a construction site in Berlin, Germany, were the city is expanding. The build-ing will inform people about the site, construction, architecture, and relat-ing subjects. The building is put on the construction site. The concept of the building was making the search for information in the virtual world tangible in the actual world. In search engines such as Google, the search happens behind the screen. In our building, the search for information happens in front of you, and in action. This allows people to observe the search and find information their peers find interesting or have in common with them.

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DesignIn the building, the glass walls allow for both the observation of the searches happening and observation of the site around them, as the changes in the city occur. Keeping the idea of tension and compression from the tensegrity, the roof is a tensile roof, and the information is projected on cloths pulled between the ceiling and floor. To accommodate for the span of the walkways, suspension cables are stretched from the four main masts down to the second and third floors.

THE BULLITT FOUNDATIONTERMINAL STUDIO


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January- June 2010

Ground FloorIn order to emphasize the significance of community and sustainability, the ground floor acts as an educational center for various green technologies as well as allowing the existing green systems within the tower to be displayed in an elegant manner. The plaza area acts as a visible rain water collection area that allows water to trickle through the building to a water storage tank in the form of a water feature that flanks the reference center. In addition, a lecture hall is designed to be used for public gatherings as well as rfor egular usage for the neighboring Seattle Arts and Science Academy.

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Office PlanThe purpose of the office floor plan was to create a narrow floor plate in order o allow for increased cross ventilation and ample daylighting to replce the need for heating and cooling systems as well as the need for extensive electric lighting. In addition, as an office tower, it was necessary to plan for the flexibility of the rentable office spaces in order to cater to a diverse group of potential tenants. Furthermore, the office layout within the structure provides shared amenities such as conference rooms and restrooms in order to increase the area of rentable and usable square footage.

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