Abigail Stubb Undergraduate Portfolio 2022

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Undergraduate Capstone Reclaiming Our Bodies Year: Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 Media: Rhinocerous, Illustrator, Photoshop, Enscape, Hand-modeling My body is not your political playground. In a country perceived to be the world’s greatest democracy, women’s sexual and reproductive rights have been under attack. Women are less and less seen as human beings. The title of my story is Reclaiming Our Bodies, a study that combines my passion for women’s rights and social justice through a design lens by creating an immersive, mobile installation that explores the spaces of the female body which are centers of decision making, desire, and control in order to strive for a better humanity.

Women*- In this thesis, the term “woman” is used as an umbrella term for any person with a womb, capable of becoming pregnant, and who identifies as femme.

Walkthrough video: https://vimeo.com/711684514

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Fall 2021 Research Book: https://issuu.com/abigailstubb/docs/reclaimingourbodies_stubb_abigail_book2022

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Public space and the street can be a powerful political tool for change, a place to gather, to have a voice and to be seen. The exhibition will travel to different cities and a variety of demographics, in hopes of connecting to a broad spectrum of audiences. Shipping containers host the exhibition- their modular and mobile nature creates for easy compact and transport.

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Site Plan

The Objectification Room Women’s bodies are seen as a vessel for visual pleasure. Women are reduced to their body parts, rather than a whole, simply to be looked at or touched. A series of cameras positioned in five different locations project parts of the users bodies onto monitors.

Model & Material Studies Model making became a crucial part of discovering the narrative from early on in the process. I experimented with synthetics, fabrics, bioplastics, casting, and paper mache.

Objectification, Dissembodiment

Policy Womb

War on the Womb: Controlling the Reproductive Body What is it like to experience one of the most politicized spaces? Throughout most of human history women have been defined primarily by their fertility.

War on the Womb aims to show the womb as a space of invasion, control, and decision making.

Sensory Womb

War on the Womb: Controlling the Reproductive Body

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A Child is Born, Lennart Nilsson

Retail Project The Sel Year: Fall 2020, Third Year Location: New Hope, PA Media: Rhinocerous, Grasshopper, Autodesk Revit, Enscape, Photoshop, Indesign

The goal was to design a retail atmosphere in New Hope, Pennsylvania, a small town North of Philadelphia, that takes into consideration the demographics of the area and recent retail trends. The site for exploration is an existing former church with large, soaring spaces.

Important considerations included engaging the community in a unique way related to the store to increase clientele and maintaining connection throughout the design. The examination of threedimensional spatial relationships between the three levels was essential.

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First Floor Plan

Exploaded Axonometric

MATURE: LEAF LARGER, MORE MATURE PLANTS PRUNING SHEARS, TOOLS GREENHOUSE/NURSERY GARDENING COMMUNITY SPACE TRIMMING/PRUNING EVENTS

GROWTH: TRUNK SAPLINGS SEEDS FERTILIZER WATERING CANS

BASE: SOIL / ROOTS PLANT VARIETY POTS SOIL TOOLS WATERING CANS

Concept Diagram

Concept Statement This ethically sourced and sustainable plant store is an exploration of microscopic cell structure. The building is a journey, a living embodiment of moving through cells.

Experimenting with cellular forms in plan and three dimension, creates an immersive experience.

Transverse Section

Structure Detail

FIBERGLASS

LIGHTING NESTED INTO CAVITIES

Material Palette Natural meets playful-Infusing a natual palette with playful tones such as resin and corregated metal to draw the user through the space.

Structure Detail

Sustainable Office Headquarters Infil Year: Spring 2021, Third Year Location: Philadelphia Naval Yard Media: Autodesk Revit, Rhinocerous, Grasshopper, Enscape, Photoshop, Indesign

Located in the Philadelphia Naval Yard, three organizations - The Coalition for Delaware River Watershed, the Delaware River Watershed Initiative, and the Alliance for Watershed Education of the Delaware River are working to prevent pollution in the local watershed. This location was chosen due to its proximity to the Delaware River Watershed. Designing spaces that are immersive experiences for people while incorporating sustainability and preservation was a primary design goal. ‘Green Design’ principles were used extensively throughout.

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Concept Statement Intrigued by water quality and runoff, this office design investigates how water infiltrates through impervious and pervious surfaces. The concept dissects this notion of infiltration as the users and spaces filter from something whole and collaborative, to more seperate, quiet, and individual spaces.

Floor Plan

Cafe Perspective

Material Palette Bight colors and materials were chosen based off sustainable practices while still improving mood and increasing energy levels as they stimulate endorphins in the brain and produce feelings of wellbeing.

B&W Film Photography Fall 2021

Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia

Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia

Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia

South Street, Philadelphia

Women’s March, City Hall, Philadelphia

Germantown, Philadelphia

Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia

Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia

Hampden, Baltimore

Fishtown Philadelphia

Philadelphia Naval Yard, Philadelphia

Inner Harbor, Baltimore