Architecture PortfolioBrittany Reilly Hardaway
Pennsylvania State UniversityArchitecture Department 2013
Contents
Brooklyn Bridge Museum
House for a Musician
Geodesic Sphere
Enoteca
Designing with Materials
Rhino Bird House
Revit Design
Design Build
Chair Design
Hand-Drawings
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Model Design 11
Brooklyn Bridge Museum
ARCH 232: Second Year Studio
Loukas Kalisperis
Spring 2013: 12 Weeks
This project was a semester long competition for the National Concrete and Ma-sonry Association. The site was located in Dumbo-Brook-lyn, NY. The competition was to design a Brooklyn Bridge Museum that incor-porated masonry units. My design focused on the idea of a museum as a threshold. The main threshold is em-bodied by the central glass circulation, becoming the “in-between” of two parts.
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Instructor
Year
Brief
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Parking
Residence Entrance
Amphitheater
House for a Musician
ARCH 231:Second Year Studio
Jamie Cooper
Fall 2012: 8 Weeks
The concept of this proj-ect was to design a House for a Musician on a sloped terrace in Bald Eagle State Park, PA. The main design aspect was to integrate your house into the terrain of the site. The program included an amphitheater, a lap pool, and a main music area for the client to play her piano. My design con-cept was to create framing views that looked out onto the lake. Through my design one can experience a dif-ferent framed view of the site at every point of the house.
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Instructor
Year
Brief
02
GeodesicSphere
ARCH 203:Buidling Constructionand Materials
Eric Sutherland
Fall 2012: 6 Weeks
The main idea of this project was to understand the struc-ture of a geodesic sphere and to create a facade that ac-centuated light, shade, and shadow. Myself and five other teammates designed and con-structed a sphere with wooden dowels held together by the tension of string. Our fa-cade design was made out of a combination of transparent and translucent Plexiglas trian-gles that were hung by red strings and placed at random. By angling some of the Plexi-glas triangles at random we created a unique effect of light, shade, and shadow.
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Instructor
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03
DowntownEnoteca
ARCH 231: Second Year Studio
Shadi Nazarian
Fall 2012: 8 Weeks
The main concept of this project was to redesign the interior of a existing building in downtown State College, PA. The program was set to include a wine bar, wine cellar, and re-tail area for an Enote-ca. My main focus for this project was to incorporate my wine rack as a continu-ous wall from the basement to the ceiling of the top floor. The wine wall creat-ed a retail space to draw customers in when they pass the exterior of the build-ing on College Avenue.
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Instructor
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04
Designing with Materials
ARCH 231 and ARCH 203 Second Year Studio & Materials
Daniel Cardoso Eric Sutherland
Fall 2012: 4 Weeks
This project was a prelimi-nary exercises for our Eno-teca design project. Myself and three other students designed and built a flat pack wine rack that was based off a modular design. Our wine rack was designed to maximize the amount of variation of the wall. It was also based off of a limited amount of variation between the pieces. The final wine rack was con-structed out of one sheet of MDF with finger joints that required no adhesive.
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Instructor
Year
Brief
05
RhinoBird House
ARCH 121: Visual Communications
Jodi La Coe and Reggie Avilles
Spring 2011
The previous project was to reconstruct the Vil-la Savoye in Revit design program. Based off of that project our next step was to create a bird and bird-house that embodied the concept of our precedent. Using rhino, I designed a birdhouse that was based off a flat pack design.
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Instructor
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06
RevitDesign
ARCH 121: Visual Communications
Jodi La Coe and Reggie Avilles
Spring 2011
In this class, we were introduced to architectur-al design programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Rhino, and Revit. Our as-signment was to create a given precedent house and reconstruct it in Revit de-sign. I was given the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier.
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Instructor
Year
Brief
07
DesignBuild
ARCH 131S: Basic Design Studio
Rebecca Henn
Spring 2011
For this project, I worked with a group of twelve oth-er students to design and then build a display and shelving unit for the Penn State Learning Factory. As a group, we met with our client and discussed his needs. In the end, we de-signed a curved shelving unit with a display wall to exhibit the sponsors of the factory. In addition, we designed vinyl letter-ing that spelled out ‘The Learning Factory’ in the windows across the front facade of the building.
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Instructor
Year
Brief
08
ChairDesign
ARCH 131s: Basic Design Studio
Jodi La Coe
Spring 2011: 8 Weeks
This project is part of a Green Dorm Room design project. Our chair design was to be based off a prec-edent, mine being Frank Gehry’s Wiggle Chair. My main conceptual idea was to create a chair out of re-used materials. I was in-spired by the idea of cre-ating a sustainable piece of furniture that was made completely out of recycled materials. My chair was made out of recycled corru-gated cardboard.
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Instructor
Year
Brief
09
HandDrawings
ARCH 121: Visual Communications
Jamie Cooper
Fall 2011
Through diagrams, plans, and experiential drawings, I studied the historical building, San Andrea by Leon Battista Alberti. The drawings of the Villa Stein show the different effects of light, shade, and shadow cast on the building.
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Instructor
Year
Brief
10
San Andrea Leon Battista Alberti
Villa SteinLe Corbusier Brittany Hardaway
Villa SteinLe Corbusier Brittany Hardaway
Villa SteinLe Corbusier Brittany Hardaway
ModelDesign
ARCH 131S: Basic Design Studio
James Kalsbeek
Fall 2011 : Six Weeks
The concept of this proj-ect was to create models in a unique way. This project is designing a room based off of a tale in the book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. My conceptual idea was to incorporate the functions of Rube a Gold-berg machine. Based off the tale, my model is meant to show a rein of power that starts at the utmost high-est point and falls down to the lowest.
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