2022 Portfolio

I am a fifth-year architecture student at Ball State University seeking to better my design skills and broaden my experience in the field. Some hobbies of mine include drawing, painting, and photography. I am a highly organized and motivated worker who aims to go above and beyond expectations. Other skills or capabilities of mine include time management, professionalism, team player, creative spirit, and sociability.

with projects in the Learning Environments studio, which encompassed mainly K-12 schools. (6 months)

Raised money for Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis with students across Ball State’s campus. Was awarded BSUDM Member of the Year among 300 classmates in spring 2019.

University Department Chair + Professor

765-285-1904 | aswartz@bsu.edu

765-376-4616

Received an Honorable Mention in the International ACSA-AISC steel competition in the Urban Food Hub Category among over 900 entries worldwide.

Redeveloped a typical CMU unit using recycled water bottles. This project was selected to represent Ball State in the national competition and was later presented at the NCMA conference in the summer of 2020.

Competed against over 60 students in Ball State’s architecture program. My project was selected as a finalist by an anonymous panel of judges from the International Hardwood Lumber Associaion.

Spoke with architects from Minneapolis firm BWBR regarding equity in the field of architecture. Podcast can be heard on the BWBR website.

Was selected by Ball State professors to present my third-year studio project at the International Peace Conference.

Have qualified for the Dean’s List all 9 semesters at Ball State and currently maintain a 3.88 cumulative GPA.

Was the recipient of The Dorothy Brink Ingemann Scholarship for Gender Equity in Design.

Nominated by both students and faculty to recieve this award for showing excecptional dedication to the architecture program as well as being a great team-player.

Given to students of high academic standing who maintain a minimum 3.5 GPA each semester.

Ball State

ANDREA SWARTZ

AIA, LEED AP, WELL AP, NCARB Ball State University Professor + AIAS Advisor

| djoverbey@bsu.edu

DAN OVERBEY

One 10 Studio Architect, Principal 317-501-6021 | ckunce@one10studio.com

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This project received an Honorable Mention in the international 2020 ACSAAISC Steel Competition in the urban food hub category. There were over 900 entries in the competition overall.

The project was also entered in a competiton within Ball State University’s College of Architecture and Planning and was a finalist among 60 entries by fellow architecture students.

wellbeing

supporting healthy lifestyle habits for members of the community within a dynamic, entertaining environment.

engagement educating the community on plant life and food production through gardening and teaching kitchens.

outreach supporting local farmers and providing additional outlets for distribution and sales.

gathering bringing the community together to encourage social interaction and healthy eating habits.

concept statement

As an opposition to the current eating habits in the United States, this food hub empowers the slow food movement and provides an opportunity for the community to obtain fresh and healthy produce from local sources. This proposal for downtown Fort Wayne, IN brings the community together and highlights the lifecycle of food and makes transparent the journey from farm to table.

Constructed primarily of steel and glass, the building remains true to its materials, which lets the greenery and activity of the space bring the site to life. The building itself demonstrates healthy living through the incorporation of sustainable strategies such as controlling light penetration with sun shading aluminum and glass panels, as well as managing rainwater with permeable surfaces, rain gardens, and underground cisterns.

This design features outdoor corridors and gathering areas as well as moveable doors and shifting panels that create a dynamic relationship between indoor and outdoor space. The roof system has a sculptural quality that is not only inviting, but also plays with light and shadow through glass panels of varying transparencies and colors.

Overall this design addresses the health and wellbeing of the Fort Wayne community and transcends current unhealthy eating patterns moving toward a healthier and more sustainable future.

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D E S I G N B U I L D

Indianapolis, IN

course

instructor description

Arch 302 | Spring 2020

Tim Gray

Over the course of 2 months, I worked with a group of 12 other students to design, produce shop drawings, fabricate, and build a sign located on Washington Street in downtown Indianapolis in front of Ball State’s College of Architecture and Planning downtown studio. The sign is an iconic symbol of the university and acts as a beacon that can be easily seen as people drive past on I-65.

contribution

I was considered a leader on this project amongst my classmates and was personally responsible for generating the design for the aluminum panels. It was my goal to create a moire effect between the overlapping panels so that they “dance” as you walk or drive past the sign. I also produced a number of shop drawings, assisted with the fabrication of the steel frame, and helped assemble the full sign on site.

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classmates and I assembling the sign on site.

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F I R E S T A T I O N 1

Detroit, MI

course

instructor

Arch 401 | Fall 2020

Janice Shimizu

partner Allison Gerardot

description

Fire Station 1 is set in central downtown Detroit, MI and was designed by both myself and one additional classmate. This project embodies the legacy of the DFD and is expressive of the street art movement in the city. It is designed to serve the traditional needs of an engine house and provide studios for Art and Soul of Detroit, a non-profit art program for the homeless.

The engine house tells a story through experience, structure, and performance in its design methodology to provide a safe haven for the Detroit community. The architecture reads and works like an apparatus with its machine-like steel structure. Similar to a fire truck, the diagonal cross-bracing shapes the occupiable solids and voids. This balances the architecture’s elegant, light-filled envelope made of translucent polycarbonate. In the center of the space, the building has a light chimney that is designed for air filtration and stitches together interior views between the public and private programs. At night, FS1 glows like a lantern, lit with graphic color. The architecture symbolizes safety as it stands tall as a beacon of hope- honoring the legacy of the Detroit Fire Department with a promise to protect its people.

Fall 2020. Snapshot from generated GIF animation demonstrating building performance.

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Building section cutting through apparatus bay facing east.

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instructor

Arch 403 | Fall 2021

Robert Koester

description

Oftentimes sustainable architecture looks to reduce its carbon footprint and reduce energy consumption through methods that are unseen or kept separate from the user experience. This project, however, explores methods in which people can be a part of implemented sustainable processes even as they maintain their normal daily routine. In this way, establishing sustainable practices in architecture becomes inevitable. This student housing and arts center demonstrates how the process of artmaking can not only be sustainable itself but contribute to the energy efficiency of the building.

This idea is achieved through the process of carbonization, in which plants grown on site can be harvested to create artistic mediums. The sustainable practices exercised by the building can be fully realized as people continue to make art – a process that not only betters our mental health, but the health of our planet.

THE LIFECYCLE OF ART

HOW CAN BUILDINGS

CELEBRATE ARTMAKING AND UTILIZE SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES THAT COINCIDE WITH THE CREATIVE PROCESS?

CARBON IS NATURALLY STORED IN PLANT MATTER

PLANTS ARE HARVESTED AS THEY APPROACH END OF LIFECYCLE, BEFORE CARBON IS RELEASED INTO ATMOSPHERE

DECOMPOSING TRANSFERRED OFF-S WHERE THEY AR NATURAL, POWDER VIA PRESSUR

The faster a plant grows, the more c second. By that measure, bamboo CO2. However, fast-growing plants plant dies, all the carbon in the plant and microbes and released as CO these fast-growing plants is extreme the potential to release the most c die. This is why bamboo was integ

G PLANTS ARE SITE TO CARBONIZER, E REDUCED TO A RED CARBON STATE RE AND HEAT

carbon dioxide it will use up per might be the best at sucking up tend not to live long and when a is broken down by insects, fungi, 2 again. Therefore, carbonizing ely beneficial because they have carbon every season when they grated so heavily in this project.

NATURAL CARBON IS COMBINED WITH WATER TO CREATE BLACK PIGMENT, OR FORMED INTO CHALK PASTELS

PIGMENT OR CHALK IS USED AS A MEDIUM TO CREATE ART

ROUNDED STEEL TUBING FOR BRACING

SUSPENDED STEEL CABLE SYSTEM

DOUBLE PANE LOW-E GLAZING

CURTAIN WALL MULLION (AL

DISPLAYED WORK WITH UV RESISTANT PIGMENT

2” STEEL TUBING (SECONDARY STRUCTURE)

The other positive outcome of this carbonization process is that the carbon “powder” it produces maintains the UVresistant qualities that many plants including hemp and bamboo possess. This project makes the most of these benefits through its unique gallery design. Within the main circulation path through the building, artwork is displayed above in a suspension grid-like structure. This main atrium acts as a solar chimney in which light pours into each interior space and air is constantly circulated. The art displayed in this area not only acts as a shading device, but when painted with the carbon mediums generated from plants on site, it protects the building from UV radiation. This results in less solar heat gain, which puts less stress on the building’s HVAC systems and significantly reduces energy consumption.

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B R E E Z E B L O C K S

NCMA National Competition

course

instructor

Arch 498 | Spring 2020

Tony Costello, AIA

partner Collin Beresford

description

repurposed water bottles

breeze block module

repurposed water bottles

This project challenged us to design a new concrete masonry or hardscape unit that can be manufactured on a block machine or big-board machine and incorporates recycled water bottles into its form and function. Our objectives were to create an alternate CMU that could be used for both architectural and landscape applications, maximize the use of recycled water bottles, and incorporate an architectural, stable geometry into the design.

More specifically, our design addresses the issue of insufficient CMU construction methods that exist in many underdeveloped countries around the world, including Haiti.

breeze block module

key slot fill

1. The breeze block serves as a passive cooling system by utilizing water bottles to channel the warm air through the mouth piece causing the air to speed up and effectively cool down. This concept is known as the Venturi Effect.

2. Breeze blocks can also be utilized as a porous paving block. The voids produced by the lack of bottles can be filled with gravel to solidify the surface while stille allowing a source of drainage.

3. The final application illustrated is the breeze block planter. Like the paving system, the voids can be filled with soil and used for various agricultural applications.

internship work

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333 E Chicago St. Milwaukee, WI

mentors

Tania Avello, Interior Designer

Abie Khatchadourian, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, NCARB, Sr. Project Manager

experience

Over the summer of 2019, I worked as an architectural intern in the firm’s Learning Environments studio. I primarily assisted with K-12 school projects, both renovation work and new construction. Depicted on the following pages are final color legend floor plans that I drew and were added to the final CD set. They represent discrepancies in type of classroom and floor finishes within each room. Additional projects and tasks I completed during this internship were selecting interior finishes and furniture, site and master planning of school campuses, completing programming and analysis studies of renovation projects, conducting client meetings to discuss project criteria, and putting together concept presenations that were eventually presented to various school districts.

T U D I O A R C H I T E C T S

200 S Meridian St Indianapolis, IN

mentors experience

Clete Kunce, AIA, Principal Andrew Fries, AIA

Daniel Toner, AIA

I have worked as an architectural intern since January of 2021 at One10 Studio in downtown Indianapolis. I’ve had the opportunity to work on projects ranging from high end residential, to commercial, to adaptive reuse. The work I have completed thus far includes producing drawings for final permit sets, generating models in Revit, meeting with clients regularly, selecting interior finishes, creating 3D rendering of completed projects, and meeting with various consultants, contractors, and engineers throughout the design process.

Fall 2021.

I attended the AIA Indiana/Kentucky Convention, where the firm received an AIA Citation Award for the Papillon residence pictured below.

internship work

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Arial view of the completed project project by Amelia Tavella Architects

PROSPECT AVE DUPLEX

This project entails a full scale renovation of an existing duplex on the southeast side of Indianapolis. The owners were looking to reorganize the existing floor plan to allow for better sitelines, clear circulation paths, and more useable space. As a part of our renovation, we moved the existing stair to the residence’s interior wall to keep circulation along the southern wall. The stair becomes a main feature of the house in this design with its modern hot rolled steel continuous stringer and exterior walls constructed from glass panels bolted to existing refinished studs.

I became involved in this project during the schematic design phase and was responsible for early drawings in design development as well as the entire CD set. I assumed a project management role as I was the main point of contact for the clients as well as contractors and metal fabrication consultants. The project is currently underway and will be completed in the fall of 2022.

internship work

BROWN RESIDENCE

Located in Zionsville, Indiana, this residence connects its owners to its surrounding environment with ample clearstory windows and a large, wrap-around porch under an expansive cantilevered roof. Our clients wanted a home that was unobstrusive and built with materials that reflected the landscape. The footprint was designed and situated to minimize the number of trees cut down and make the most of the subtle topographic changes.

I contributed to this project during the CD and CA phase - meeting with engineers to discuss details and framing plans as well as producing renders and walkthrough videos via Twinmotion.

Since a very young age, I have been drawing and painting in my spare time. It has been a passion of mine my whole life and was partially why I decided to pursue architecture as a career. The following are images that I’ve painted throughout my first three years of school at Ball State Unviersity. I believe that sketching by hand is a vital skill in order to become a successful architect. It has allowed me to develop design concepts at a faster rate and convey my ideas to my peers. These pieces are not tied to my work in architecture school, rather they were made in my free time and express a more personal side.

16” x 20” Acrylic.