Portfolio Kayla Smith

Kayla Smith

Table of Contents

Austin New Music Center 04

Pinhole Camera 20

Star Archive 10

Alamo Landscape 14

Austin Swim Center 16

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Resume 42

Homeless Family Center 32

Runaway Folding Shelter 30

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Kinder Havana 22

Illustrations Samples 36

Austin New Music Center

Loc: 1114 E 11th, Austin, TX

Program: Music performance,

practice, and recording

Instructor: Michael Benedict

Semester: Fall 2011

This center for an avante-garde

community of musicians, situated across

the highway from Downtown Austin

in a growing neighborhood, holds

two indoor performance spaces, an

outdoor performance space INSERT

classrooms, INSERT practice room, a

recording studio, offices, and snack bar.

The building is a concrete structure

with stucco finish and a glazed

brick rainscreen exterior skin. The

performance spaces can be seen from

the courtyard as pods All rooms in this

space are designed based on a 3-5-8

ratio, which allows for optimal acoustics.

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Massing Scheme:

Bite: 12’ x 9’ x 15’ blocks carved from

the original L-shaped form

Slice: Slits in form’s face where

performance space “pods”

push into the courtyard

Peel: Fenestration cuts through

outer skin alone; all cuts

wrap an edge of the form

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north elevation

west elevation

south elevation

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Star Archive

long section

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Program: Archive Space

Instructor: Charlton Lewis

Semester: Fall 2008

In this design, the building is literally

the object archived. The spherical

shell houses a life-size armillary sphere

charting the astrological constellations

and the earth’s equatorial plane.

The 12 ft tall sundial, archive, and

stargazing platform are arranged

along a symmetrical axis, emulating

processions to temples of ancient times.

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Alamo LandscapeLocation: 300 Alamo Plaza,

San Antonio, TX

Program: Plaza before Historic Alamo

Instructor: Judy Birdsong

Semester: Fall 2010

Redesign of the Alamo Plaza, focused on

memory of the land. Swelled landscape

and a wall hides the row of tourist shops

visually and acoustically. Stone pavings

trace former structures of the mission,

military compound, and later park.

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Swim CenterLocation: Ladybird Lake,

Austin, TX

Program: Natatorium

Instructor: John Blood

Semester: Spring ‘11

This project consists of two schemes:

an indoor olympic sized natatorium for

swimming and diving competitions, and an

outdoor recreational pool with wading

zone, cafe, and waterslide.

site plan

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Competition v. Recreation

The competition pool addresses the downtown district

as an event node; the recreational pool greets the

park as a communal gathering space. The competition

pool boasts an intricate roof structure of leaping

diagonals, the recreational pool an overlapping

system of pathways exploring the space around these

two zones.

Connection Through

At the shaded cafe space, a window peers into the

underwater world of the competition pool above,

bridging the barrier between these two spaces as

onlookerser watch swimmers and divers from an

uncommon viewpoint.

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south elevation

south section

Pinhole Camera

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Three-Part Exploration

Build: Create working pinhole

camera of original

design

Capture: Photograph instances

of light over time

Interpret: Analyze photographic

explorations three-

dimensionally

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Kinder Havana

Location: Havana, Cuba

Program: Kindergarten

Instructor: Cisco Gomes

Semester: Spring 2012

Collaboration With: Jodie Golla

This kindergarten lies across the bay

from Havana’s city center, near a historic

military fort garding the port city. It is

secluded in a cove within the larger port.

The school was designed with the idea of

learning by exploring. The main program

of the building is below the entrance

level inside a cove; a world known only

to the young students. All classrooms have

direct access to the outdoors, and to the

courtyard playground through a raised

brise soleil gallery.

site plan

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Room Study

The lunchroom and classrooms were of particular

focus for this project. The lunchroom is enveloped in

translucent channel glass, and opens out directly onto

the playground. It is the only room that breaks the

square form of the building. Pendant lights trace the

level change in this room.

All classrooms are grouped in pairs, sharing a

bathroom. The interior is divided into activity zones.

Each room opens out to a screened breezeway on

the courtyard side.

lunchroom plan

lunchroom north section

lunchroom south section

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classroom plan

classroom north section

classroom south section

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FLASHING

WOOD BLOCKING

W 16 X 40 STEEL BEAM

STEEL ANGLE

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W 6 X 25 STEEL MEMBER

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Runaway Folding ShelterAssembly

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Spur of

Moment

70 %

Planned

30 %

Regularly

31.5%

Irregularly

13.5%

Do Not

Attend

55%

First Night

Second Night

Friend

33.8%

Friend

42.7%

Family

8.5%

Family

12.5%

Transit

10%

Transit

6.1%

BF/GF

8.8%

BF/GF

8.8%

Other Ext.

9.8%

Other Ext.

11.3%

Other Int. 3.7%

Shelter 3.7%

Walk 1.2%

Squat 1.2%

Park

10.9%

Abandoned Bldg. 3.7%

Rooftop 2.4%

Hospital 1.2%

Shelter 5%

Squat 1.3%

Abandoned Bldg. 1.3%

Hospital 1.3%

Park

11.3%

Other Int. 3.8%

Leaving Home

Where They Stay

Access to Education

A runaway teen is disconnected from all social resources at a critical

stage in development. In response, this shelter promotes camaraderie

and intimacy by becominng a room when two or more are connected.

The entire system folds out from a backpack such that the users are inside

the shelter once assembled., and find solace in each other’s company.

Program: Transportable Shelter for

Homeless Teen

Instructor: Ellizabeth Danze w/ Sarah

Dooling & Steve Sonnenberg

Semester: Spring 2013

individual + pair section

individual + pair plan

grouped plan

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Program: Center for Homeless Families

Location: 502 Pampa Drive, Austin, Texas

Instructor: Ellizabeth Danze w/ Sarah

Dooling & Steve Sonnenberg

Semester: Spring 2013

This center was designed with the aim

of fostering community, within each

family, between all residing families,

and between these families and

those living in the adjacent

neighborhood.

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Center for Homeless Families

Close attention was paid to the

courtyard as a primary social node.

All housing units face the courtyard,

with a wall that opens up onto a

porch shared between two pods.

Children have plenty of space

to play outdoors in a safe place.

Pathways and pockets of seating

allow moments of conversation.

A center for homeless families requires many more

services outside of housing. Case managers’ offices,

medical services, job training, a library, and child

care are all housed in a separate building, with each

service open to the public as well. The childcare

spaces in particular are anticipated to serve the

larger community. Through this service, residents will

find a place in a community once more and gain the

confidence to nurture a successful family.

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Illustration SamplesDigital Painting

restaurant towerbridge house

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Analysis Sketchessaynatsalo axonometric

stockholm courtyard

plan + circulation diagram

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Louisiana Art Museum Section Loc: Humlebæk, Denmark

Studio: Europe Study Abroad Visual

Communications

Instructor: John Blood | Elizabeth Danze

Year: Fall 2012

Illustration Samples

Stockholm in Section

Loc: Stockholm, Sweden

Studio: Europe Study Abroad Visual

Communications

Instructor: John Blood | Elizabeth Danze

Year: Fall 2012

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Game ArtworkGame Title: “Sundial”Platform: Windows Phone

Collaboration with: Stuart Holland of Sergeus Studios

Release Date: August 2013

Illustration Samples

Life Drawing

Instructor: Laura Sturtz

Semester: Fall 2009

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Resume

Work Experience:

• Pfluger Associates Architects, Austin, Tx., Jan 2008- Aug 2012

• Sentech Architectural Solutions, Austin, Tx, June - Nov 2010

Other Experience:

• Independent Research Travel on Case Study Houses in Los

Angeles, California, Summer 2012

• Producing all artwork for cell phone game start-up, January 2013 - present

• Senior Student Assistant for Professor Elizabeth Danze with

Overland Architects, compiling book on homelessness

Summer 2013

• Design Assistant for Design 4 studio under Professor

Charlton Lewis, Spring 2013

• University of Texas Music & Architecture Symposium

Stage Design/Build with team of three, Fall 2011

• Mural Projects Designer and Supervisor at Pearl Street

Cooperative Housing, Fall 2009 - Summer 2011

• AIAS member Fall 2010, Officer 2011 - 2012

Education:

• The University of Texas at Austin, Texas; Class of 2013

_ École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris - Belleville;

International Student, Fall 2012

• NYOS Charter School, Austin, Texas; Class of 2008;

Salutatorian

• The University of Texas at Austin, Texas,

Summer of Architecture, Summer 2007

Pfluger Associates Projects:

• Designed library space for new Leander High School

• Created Revit model for Monastery project

• Prepared presentation drawings of various projects

• Created library of construction details in Revit

• Worked in project files in AutoCAD

• Organized project Spec Book

• Visited construction sites to carry out punch list

Sentech Architectural Solutions Projects:

• Created library of glass fitting details in AutoCad

• Created drawing sets for various projects to send to

Project Architect

• Created company project presentations

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11900 Doubloon Cove #A

Austin, Texas, 78759

C: (512) 740 - 0642

E: [email protected]

23901 Lakeside Drive

Marble Falls, Texas, 78654

artbykla.tumblr.com

Technology: • Autodesk Revit highly proficient

• Autodesk AutoCAD proficient

• Adobe Photoshop highly proficient

• Adobe InDesign proficient

• Adobe Illustrator moderate

• Rhino novice

Awards/Activities: • Mebane Travel Scholarship Recipient, Fall 2012

• Undergraduate Research Fellowship Recipient,

Summer 2012

• AIAS Beaux Arts Ball Planning Committee, 2011 & 2012

• AIAS Pump Project Design Contest 1st Place, Fall 2010

• Life Drawing piece selected for display at Dougherty Arts

Center, Spring 2010

• UTSOA Scholarship Recipient, Fall 2009

• Devourer of books

• Avid Cook

• Amateur Guitarist

• Elementary understanding of French

Recent graduate

with a Bachelor of

Architecture seeking

full-time employment

with an architectural

firm aimed at

bettering their clients

lives by bettering the

setting for life.

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