Kristen Weller graduate design
+ build portfolio
medium: watercolor paper intent: design and paint a watercolor of design parti execution: built parti with watercolor paper
Wine + Cheese Table designed
+
september
built: solo project
2013
purpose: table for the tasting of wine and cheeses with appropriate
45 degree angled storage for wine bottles design intent: utilizing only reclaimed wood palettes, knife hinges, and found screws to assemble table
Process Models designed
+
built: team project,
+ christopher motley september 2013 kristen weller
purpose: adaptable parti models for the architectural design of an immigration museum design intent: creating a cascading effect to embody the walt whitman poem, “keep your face always toward the sunshine will fall behind you.�
- and shadows
Section Model designed
+
built: team project,
+ christopher motley september 2013 kristen weller
purpose: sectional model for an immigration museum to highlight the way that light enters the space design intent: create a dicotemy between the exhibition spaces and the circulation spaces with different lighting conditions
Immigration Museum Design Models designed
+
built: team project,
kristen weller
+ christopher
motley with the help of erica
+ marisa aschettino october 2013 donnelly
purpose: create a
4’ x 4’ site model
for multiple separate models design intent: creating a cascading effect to embody the walt whitman poem, “keep your face always toward the sunshine will fall behind you.”
- and shadows
Harvest Home designed
+
built: team capitol dc
role: architectural designer and builder
+ sponsorship lead
purpose: home for a wounded veteran and the
2013
Solar Decathlon
design intent: the design, build, and transport of a universally
Washington, DC to the Solar Decathlon 2013 competition in Irvine, California adaptable home from
with the final destination of
Vista, California for use by a veteran
Tale
of the
Tongs
+ student team january - june 2013 designed
+
built: travis price
purpose: to commemorate all of the families who have lived in inishturk, ireland and reflect upon those whom they have lost design intent: following the poem,
“Whispering flames revealing our breaths held, yearning anew. Rekindled aroma of the tongs Echoes our burning embrace in view ……,” this installation is meant to be a gathering point for families
of inishturk. using stone walls and glass panels, the framed views and highlighted names give a sense of place to this dedication
Design Charrette + built: solo project march 2011 designed
purpose: competition to design by making only two changes to the box design intent: create a nest like form based upon cutting and rotating the cardboard box
Kelly Miller City School Project build: individually contracted by gensler and des-dc may
- june 2014
purpose: panels to create certain spatial conditions within a school birds to recognize donors execution: rhinocam and cnc
6x3 panels
25
+
Kupole 10 students + Martin Rajnis and associates april 2012 build:
purpose: chapel dome to highlight the architectural language of
Martin Rajnis and to build team bonding among Team Capitol DC execution: wood members
+ wood
connection pieces cut and screwed together