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Design portfolio

2014

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Megan LloydBFA, beds, m.arch candidate 2457 Agricola Street Halifax, NS [email protected] (902) 830-8678

education Dalhousie University Master of Architecture 2014-present Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies 2012-2014

NSCAD University Bachelor of Fine Art 2009-2012

St. Francis Xavier University Engineering 2006-2007

academic involvement Dalhousie Architecture Students Association President // 2014 NSAA Intern Committee // 2014 Institute for Research in Materials // Oral Presenter at Annual Research Day // Studying the Material Implications of Green Oak Gridshell Structures // 2014 IDEA Building Project Development // 2014 Technology Teaching Group // 2014 Lecture Series // 2013-2014 Professional Practice committee // 2013 School of Architecture committee // 2013 Humanities committee // 2013

awards UCBeyond National Scholarship // 2014 William P. Lydon Memorial Scholarship // 2014 Dalhousie Undergraduate Scholarship // 2014

certifications St. John Ambulance First Aid/CPR // Updated June 2014 Scaffolding Safety Training // Expiry 2017 Fall Protection Safety Training // Expiry 2017

work/volunteer Teacher’s Assistant // Dalhousie University Professional Practice // ARCH 3302 2014-present

Teacher’s Assistant // Dalhousie University Building Systems Integration // ARCH 4211 2014

Coastal Studio Co-op Student Designer/Builder 2013

EyeLevel Gallery Student Intern 2012

skills AutoCAD InDesign/PhotoShop/Illustrator Hand Drawing SketchUp Model Making Woodworking Metalworking Rhino VectorWorks Revit

references Diogo Burnay [email protected]

Niall Savage [email protected]

Brian Lilley [email protected]

Ted Cavanagh [email protected]

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Cheticamp Farmer’s Market // Cheticamp, NS

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Fundy National Park Treehouse //Alma, NB

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Dalhousie School of Music //Halifax, NS

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Ross Creek Solar Showers //Canning, NS

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Urban Planning + Housing // In Process //Dartmouth, NS

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Other Works // work done during BEDS // Various Sites

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Design/Build Team: Xan Hawes, Nina Hitzler, Evan Hoyles, Noah Jacobson, Amanda Kemeny, Kaitlyn Labrecque, Katelyn Latham, Megan Lloyd, Fraser Plaxton, Julia Weir

cheticamp farmers marketM1 // May-August 2014

The Cheticamp Farmer’s Market was a Design/Build project which took place during the summer of 2014 along with nine other students. The site is located in Cheticamp, NS, a small Acadian town in Cape Breton made up of about 3,000 residents.The structure is made using locally sourced green oak and is held together by a hybrid lashing/clamping system, which all ties into a concrete slab floor. In addition to designing and building the grid shell, our team also took on landscaping and furniture design/building. We installed permeable paving at the entrances, constructed a band stand, built a berm to reduce street noise and laid all new sod. After several community collaboration meetings, new tables were specially built for each vendor at the market as well. The next phase of the project is to introduce a sun shading system of criss-crossing wooden laths throughout the structure and to install a bench on the back curve. As for the future of the site, a community garden has been initiated in the field directly behind the structure to encourage the children of the town to grow food and sell it at the market.

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Work Term Design/Build Team: Ben Angus, Katie Hall, Tyler Hall, Kaitlyn Labrecque, Katelyn Latham & Megan Lloyd

fundy national park treehouseb4 // work term // august-december 2013

The Fundy National Park Treehouse is a project that was first conceived in 2012. Initial site work began at this time but the design of the grid shell structure did not begin until the following year.I was on the team of designers tasked with making this unprecedented type of construction work. What makes the Treehouse project unique is that it is a grid shell that does not touch the ground. It wraps into itself like a cocoon. This type of structure has never been built before so the design and building process was a lot of thinking while doing, a lot of testing ideas out by physically building. This project required very detailed drawings, models and accurate documentation for clear communication with our partner engineers and client, Parks Canada.

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dalhousie school of music

The design process began with the study of the relationship between the pianist and the piano. Starting the process here, made it clear that the primary goal of the design would be to make spaces that musicians would want to inhabit, places that are comfortable and functional for the needs of a music student. Geometry, acoustics and lighting became the main factors considered.The layout of the plan was generated by the fabric of the site, located on an important intersection in Halifax delineating public Robie Street, and the more private institutional University Avenue. The plan was cut into three parts: Learning, Practicing and Performing. The Learning slice was closest to Edward Street, the quieter end of the building; the Performing slice was adjacent to Robie Street meant to interact with the public. The Practicing slice mediated the space in between.This splitting and slicing lent itself to the existence of natural lighting and green spaces within the building. Some of these features include south facing balconies stacking the facade and a staggered atrium piercing the building acting as circulation as well as an impromtu performance space.

dalhousie school of musicMegan lloydDesign Intention

With the initial, city scale, design intention of moving from the public, Robie Street zone of the site to the more private University zone of the site, the design began to be divided into three parts.

The first part would be Learning. This cluster of program would exist nearest to the main Dalhousie University campus. As the design moves further away from the campus, the areas inside get more and more public. The middle cluster is for Practicing and Refining Skills. The last part, closest to the public realm of Robie Street is for Performing. The public and private nature of these interior spaces are reflected on the facade, so the parti reads clearly from insde and out.

Dividing these spaces up led to the issue of allowing all spaces natural light and access to greenery. This is what brought on the large atrium piercing the entire building. Next came the south facing, stacked balconies, and then the green wall located on the second floor. These steps made it possible for all rooms in the school to have access to light, either directly from the sun or filtered through the atrium.

Next, it was imperative that these spacs that had been carved out be pleasant and useful for the students. I thought about where the students would spend the most time when occupying the building. Then it was in these spaces that I made sure to take the most care. For example, the practice rooms are all stacked along the south facade allowing plenty of natural light with lots of consideration to efficient acoustic properties.

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View of Main Entry Inside Practice Room Cladding Detail

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urban planning+housing designm2 // September-december 2014 (in progress)

In the design studio this semester, we are presented with the task of studying the juxtaposition of urban conditions on the Dartmouth waterfront and asked to improve the existing site by developing a new master plan for the area. This is done by thinking about the city as one entity and the waterfront as another and how to use housing as a means to mitigate these two zones.The first part of the term is about studying the site at all scales, from its context within the province down to changes in topography over each individual building site. As I began to study the site, a gap appeared between Dartmouth Cove and Sullivan’s Pond; it is the only non-continuous part of a chain of lakes and rivers that run all the way from Halifax Harbour to the Bay of Fundy. The first step in the new uban design strategy became to expose this buried canal by street simplification and the implementation of public green space. the step in progress is to design high density housing in this green space.

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Dartmouth Crossing

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other worksB1-b3 // september 2012-july 2013

Selection of projects from the first few semesters of the Bachelor of Environmental Design program at Dalhousie University.

B1 //1:100 model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Banff Park Pavilion presented in detachable wooden parts

B2 //Live/Work Housing Design: Family home and home-school design drawings, plans & axonometric.

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Simplification of Streets Revival of the Canal: Connection to Halifax Harbor

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11 12As Built Drawing Team: Katie Hall, Kaitlyn Labrecque, Katelyn Latham & Megan LloydBuild Team: Wes Bou-Saleh, Megan Lloyd, Philippa Ovonjiodida-Keri, Alina Rahkmatullina, Luke Ryalls, Max Schnutgen & Mahsa Shobbar

ross creek solar showersb3-4 // May-december 2013

The Ross Creek Solar Showers was a project that began in 2011 at the Ross Creek Center for the Arts in Canning, NS. Unfortunately, the the first time it was built, the construction failed and it needed to be rebuilt.I was a member of the team who worked to rebuild the Solar Showers in the summer of 2013 and then again was involved with the project that fall to create a set of as-built drawings to obtain necessary permits.The shower pavilion is designed to appear as if it is cantilevering off a steep hill, looking out to the woods beyond. It is made up of four private shower stalls each framing a specific view, taking inspiration from the Perry Lakes Park restrooms in Marion, AL by Rural Studio.

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