Richardson Portfolio 2025 by abigailrichardsondesign

PORTFOLIO

vol. 1 2025 5th year

abigail richardson

Study abroad architectural sketches

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MOCO, Amsterdam

Church of St. Bavo, Haarlem Colosseum, Rome

Personal Works

Wedding cakes, painting, and sewing

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My hobbies have always served as a creative outlet. I have been blessed with the “how hard could it be” attitude and pride myself in my confidence to learn new abilities. I recently had the opportunity to bake a wedding cake for one of my friends which tested my skills against time. In addition, painting and sewing are two skills that were passed down to me from my mother and gradmother and this summer I undertook sewing my own quilt.

Lantern on the Hill , acrylic on canvas, 8x10, 2024

No Admittance Except on Party Business , acrylic on canvas, 8x10, 2022

Cotton Quilt, 7’x8’, 2024

Integrative Arts Facility

3 teammates, all products shown are personal work

Located on the OSU campus, the new Integrative Arts Facility will serve as a home for all arts practices. Schematic design was done as a team and students split in design development to further design a specific lab of the building. One challenge of the project was deciding how to respond to the OSU Design Guidelines. Our team chose to selectfully break the rules using the traditional U form and intersecting it with a shading device to improve energy performance.

McKnight lawn

Library lawn and gardens

Edmon Low Library

OSU Integrated Arts Facility

OSU FORM PULL UP SOLID

SHADING DEVICE

SAWTOOTH WALLS

SHADING DEVICE

WALLS

Focus Space - Fine Arts

To reduce glare while still allowing sunlight into the studio spaces, angling the walls 25 degrees and facing the windows toward the North increased ambient lighting and reduced cooling loads. The team won second place in daylighting design and second place in low energy building for the studio.

NORTH LIGHT

What is Oklahoma art?

The Collab as an Oklahoma State University building should be particular to Oklahoma, utilizing traditional mediums and methods found in the state for centuries. This idea led me to research more about pottery, painting, and textiles in Oklahoma. Frankoma Pottery, Native American regalia, and Oklahoma 4-H clubs were just a few of the inspirations for the possibilities of Oklahoma art that could be celebrated in the fine arts studio.

Focus Space - Fine Arts

The 4 zones needed for the studio created a simple organization. In addition, colors from research and the Oklahoma landscape will be used as accents in tile to denote the areas. A cross along the 4 cardinal directions subtly relates to the earlier research through 4-H and Native American traditions.

SEWING/TEXTILES PAINTING

POTTERY

DRAWING

textiles/drawing

Journey Net-Zero Maternity Home

Hillsdale, Oklahoma

11 teammates

The Net-Zero Maternity Home won 2nd place in the Solar Decathlon competition for low-energy and low-carbon buildings. The home is a plan for Journey Women’s Center as a maternity home for young women in difficult circumstances who are pregnant. 8 women could ive in the home up until their child is 1 year old. They would provide encouragement, schooling, and free doctor’s appointments.

Each teammate was in charge of a seperate portion of the Solar Decathlon competition. I chose research on local materials and how they could be used to lower embodied carbon in our building.

Low Carbon Concrete Mix local manufacturerslab provides better heat retention-

Eastern Red Cedar -sequesters carbon

Roof -better support for PV -lower long-term cost

Recycled

Wood Framing on SOG Ductless Mini-Splits + DOAS

Mother’s Bedroom

An abundance of research went into the design of each mother’s bedroom because this would be a space they could call their own during a time of emotional healing. My own experience as a babysitter and aunt helped the team make decisions on the needs of the babies and mothers as well as optimal layout for noise mitigation and convenience. This includes the location of the crib far from the window, a closet large enough for a stroller, and a changing area next to the in-room sink.

Living Room

Utilizing red cedar wherever there was wood in the house helped reduce the embodied carbon of the building. Low carbon, net-zero energy, and low cost were the priorities of the Solar Decathlon competition. In addition to sequestering carbon, the red cedar is local and invasive. I studied local materials in my research for the project and suggested the use after learning about by products of Oklahoma agriculture.

Library of Craft

Jewish Ghetto, Rome, Italy

1 teammate, all products shown are personal work

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The goal of the project is to enhance the sharing of skills that are normally passed down between family members and enhancing the culture of Italians, Italian Jews, and tourists. Tourist traffic in Rome has become the height of its economy, but this has caused an influx in cheap souvenirs. Due to the population in Italy decreasing paired with a cultural effect of passing down skills in the family, cultural skills have decreased. By implementing a space for tourists, locals, and students, to gather artisan skills can be traded in the new library of imagination.

Research of the Jewish Ghetto in Rome

The Jewish people have a long history of being displaced. The Diaspora spread the Jews throughout the world.

The Jewish people initially moved to Rome to become merchants and trade in the growing market.

Paul traveled to Rome to speak to the Jewish Christians that were already established there in 58 AD.

JERUSALEM

BABYLONIA

Condividi il tuo mestiere / Share your craft

Research was driven by the question of how the Jewish Ghetto was created in Rome, and why Jews moved there in the first place. In addition to the rich Jewish culture of the area, the Italian culture of passing down knowledge in the household creates a unique cross. With the population in Italy decreasing, the once priceless skills aren’t being taught to the younger generation. This sparked the idea of creating a new type of library that would encourage the sharing of skills particular to Roman and Jewish tradition.