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BERNETT ALLISON

M.Arch Cornell University

Sample Work Winter 2020-2021

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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KALEIDESCOPE CATHEDRAL: A Parametric Reconfiguring of King’s College Chapel

AVIARY FOR THE TINAMOU: Camouflage & Disguise M.Arch 1st Semester Professors Sasa Zivkovic & Aleksandr Mergold Fall 2017

M.Arch Drawing II Professor Leslie Lok Spring 2018

ECOSYSTEM

CRAFT

School and professional work inspired by a background in biology, sustainability, and love of the natural world.

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Drawing and modeling projects spanning analog and digital media.

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EMBRACING ECOLOGICAL ENTANGLEMENT: A Regenerative Vision for the New Indonesian Capital

BOSQUE DE CONSTITUYENTES: Gateway to Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park

M.Arch Thesis Advisors Martin Miller & Caitlin Taylor Fall 2020

M.Arch 5th Semester Professor Jeremy Foster Fall 2019

COMMUNITY

THESIS

School and professional work addressing complex contextual and programmatic conditions.

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AVIARY FOR THE TINAMOU Camouflage & Disguise

Crested Tinamou Bronx Zoo, 9.30.17

Semester: Fall 2017 Location: Beebee Lake, Ithaca, NY Program: Aviary & Wildlife Observatory Professors: Sasha Zivkovic & Aleksandr Mergold In this first semester graduate studio, I was prompted to design an aviary for tinamous (shy South and Central American ground-dwelling birds). The birds’ excellent camouflaging plumage inspired a building that blends into its surroundings. Situated on a tiny island in Beebee Lake in Ithaca, NY, the proposed aviary employs camouflage in several ways: The tinamou pavilions, observation decks, offices, and other programming are all submerged into the lake, creating a sprawling structure that is flush with the reeds of the existing island.

An accessible, green roof inserted between the dense, irregularly spaced columns further blends building with context while enabling visitors to explore the island. A visitor walking from the shoreline path onto the structure may find it difficult to distinguish the building from the island (right).

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Roof Plan

View from the Shore

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Plantings

Accessible Roof

Support Piers

Subgrade Pavilions

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Exploded Axonometric

Construction

Five Years

Ten Years

Predicted Habitat Creation www.linkedin.com/in/allison-bernett/

Sketches of Piers & Sedimentation 7

30° Reflection

Parametric Reconfiguration of King’s College Chapel

Original 90° Reflection

KALEIDOSCOPE CATHEDRAL

Chapel Vaulted Ceiling

In subsequent iterations, I used Grasshopper to continuously rotate the plane of reflection across a field of vaults, resulting in an undulating voronoi pattern. I rebuilt the primary, secondary, and tertiary ribbing of the vaults to array between vaults, mimicking the geometric hierarchy of the original chapel. A collaged rendering imagines the resulting space as a verdant forest.

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45° Reflection

In this digital media class, I analyzed, modeled, and manipulated the King’s College Chapel into a fantastical new nave space. The intricate hierarchical geometries of the chapel inspired each successive manipulation of the space. First, I simply rotated the plane of reflection of the vaulted ceiling, and then trimmed and joined the resulting vault sections to create a kaleidoscopic series of hexagonal chapel spaces (right).

60° Reflection

Semester: Spring 2018 Class: Constructed Drawing II (digital) Professor: Leslie Lok

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Tessellated Chapel www.linkedin.com/in/allison-bernett/

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KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL

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Individuals Vaults

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Plan

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Worm’s Eye Axonometric

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Collaged Rendering

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BOSQUE DE CONSTITUYENTES Gateway to Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park

Pedestrian Bridge

Market & Playground

Welcome Center

Sculpture Park Boardwalk

Overpass & Stairs

Existing Metro Station

Semester: Fall 2019 Location: Mexico City, MX Program: Metro Station, Market, Public Space Professor: Jeremy Foster Collaborators: Olivia Meyers & Chae Park For this studio, we traveled to Mexico City, selected disused sites, and developed programs responsive to both the existing context and broader social and environmental challenges.

The chaotic yet underwhelimg Estación Constituyentes metro station captured our team’s interest. Although just blocks from famous galleries, museums, schools, and the city’s largest park Bosque de Chapultepec, the sloping site remains inaccessible and infrequently used due to alienating landscaping and two busy bisecting highways. Our design proposal works to serve the multiple “constituencies” of the site by 1) increasing connectivity within the site and to nearby destinations, 2) promoting greater site usage, 3) enhancing the pedestrian experience, and 4) reducing flooding, increasing water recharge, and highlighting environmental conditions.

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Grading

Metro Platform

Exploded Axon

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User Routes

1. School Children 2. Park Goer 3. Gallery Visitor

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1A. Pedestrian Bridge

1B. Playground

2A. Metro Entrance

2B. Highway Stairs

3A. East Entrance

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EMBRACING ECOLOGICAL ENTANGLEMENT

A Regenerative Framework for the New Indonesian Capital

Imagined Community

Semester: Fall 2020 Class: Graduate M.Arch Thesis Advisors: Martin Miller & Caitlin Taylor Award: Shreve Award for excellence & originality 95% of Jakarta will likely be inundated by 2050 due to severe subsidence and sea level rise. To unburden Jakarta, the Indonesian government plans to build a new capital city on Borneo, famous for rainforests threatened by deforestation and climate change. Indonesia’s predicament reflects a global issue: how to house growing populations while reviving life-sustaining ecosystems to halt climate change?

Embracing this ecological entanglement, my graduate thesis investigated how architecture could build thriving communities while regenerating degraded ecosystems. It proposed a design framework for a self-sufficient community within the larger capital city. Through the establishment of healthy habitats, netpositive cycles, and antifragile, adaptive systems, the project works to regenerate the local ecosystem and reverse climate change. Instead of delivering complete designs, the framework comprises design rules to achieve regenerative carbon, water, and material cycles (right) while improving quality of all life.

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Regenerative Community Cycles www.linkedin.com/in/allison-bernett/

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4. Communal Verandas

3. Rooftop PV

2. Rainwater Storage

1. Porous Ventilated Massing

Building Rules Demonstration Buildings

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Imagined Communal Verandas

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