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Hello my name is Ashley Ham and I am currently a fourth year student in a five-year undergraduate, Bachelor of Architecture program at Pratt Institute.

My Skills include AutoCAD, ProjeCAD, Adobe Suite software mainly Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, 3D software such as Rhino, Revit, Twinmotion, PowerPoint, Excel, Grasshopper.

My current passions within the field of architecture are unifying a connection between human and nature, as well as bringing comfort, inclusivity, and environment to the forefront of most of my projects, while allowing for curiosity and the opportunity of discovery with each experience of an architectural project.

I am also interested in hand drawing, film and digital photography, digital painting, and traveling.

NYCHA-TURE

C onnecting NYCHA back with nature 2024 FALL [Design 402]

VANCOUVER VIEW CORRIDORS

Diagramming 2024 FALL [Urban Genealogies]

MERCATO DI MANHATTA

Market and C ommunity Learning C enter 2023 FALL [Design 301]

ADDITIONAL WORKS

Work From Non-Design Classes 2023 FALL- 2024 SPRING

THE VOID AND PETAL HOUSE

Representation 1 & 2 2021 FALL & 2022 SPRING

PERSONAL STUDIES

Digital Photography 2022 SUMMER- 2023 SPRING

WEST SECTION

Solo project :: 16 Weeks

discourage pedestrian activity and neighborhood interaction. The lack of mixed-use de velopment further reduces economic opportunities, while neglected open spaces foster isolation rather than integration.

ORIGINAL PERGOLAS STRUCTURE+

This project reimagines the NYCHA superblock through a formal architectural approach that restores urban connectivity, integrates nature, and fosters a sustainable community. The design reintroduces the original street grid, breaking the superblock into smaller, interconnected blocks that encourage pedestrian movement and social engagement. The grid creates a permeable, walkable environment where public and private spaces coexist, with mixed-use buildings that include residential, retail, and civic functions.

The architectural form emphasizes environmental sustainability with green roofs that mitigate the urban heat island effect and provide private outdoor spaces for residents. The site incorporates seasonal gardens with native NYC plants, designed to honor influential Black agriculturalists, as well as pollinator-friendly landscapes to foster biodiversity. Elevated pergolas, designed in three varying heights, frame key pedestrian axes and public spaces, providing shelter, visual continuity, and wayfinding throughout the site. These pergolas also serve as symbolic markers, guiding visitors through open spaces, plazas, and event areas.

The buildings are designed with a preservation model, integrating architectural elements—such as windows, doors, and ornamentation—that reflect the surrounding built environment, fostering a sense of continuity and familiarity. The mix of affordable and market-rate housing includes varied apartment types to promote inclusivity, while an intergenerational housing program connects students and seniors, creating opportunities for mutual support and community cohesion.

Civic spaces, such as a daycare, senior center, and sports complex, are strategically placed within the development to address diverse community needs. Commercial spaces at the ends of each block support local businesses and create economic opportunities.

RESEARCH AND ITERATIONS

AXONOMETRIC IN CONTEXT

Site Analysis and Urban Diagramming

Reasearch :: Sustainable :: Urban Architecture :: Urban Genaologies

Studio Professor :: Silvia Vercher Pons

Solo project :: 16 Weeks

In this class, research and creative storytelling explored the complex layers shaping cities, offering new insights into architecture. Using Vancouver as my project site, its urban environment is influenced by natural surroundings, fostering a culture of outdoor activities. However, zoning laws protecting scenic views limit high-density housing, worsening the housing crisis. Single-family residential zoning restricts land use, prioritizing luxury developments over affordable housing. To address these challenges, Vancouver needs to revise zoning regulations, promote mixed-use developments, and integrate sustainable building practices for inclusive growth.

Market and C ommunity Learning C enter

New Construction :: Mixed Use :: Sustainable :: Urban Architecture ::

Third-year fall studio

Studio Professor :: Donald Cromley

Paired project :: 16 Weeks

Mercato Di Manhatta

OVERVIEW:

Situated in the Lower East Side of New York City, Sara D. Roosevelt Park is a vibrant urban green space encompassed by a diverse urban community. The park is ideal for the integration of a flexible market building because it serves as a focus for cultural events, recreational activities, and community gatherings. The market would play a role as an economic and community anchor given the park’s central role in the neighborhood, providing local vendors with a convenient location to showcase their products and create a dynamic space for events, educational programs, and leisure activities that meet the diverse needs of the surrounding population.

Rendered perspective of night illuminating classrooms

Rendered perspective at day looking at louvers from rooftop patio

This project encompasses various spaces for a diverse array of market vendors, correlating to temporary and permanent services. The space fosters growth for small businesses and general entrepreneurship, while also providing flexible multipurpose spaces for different events, learning, cultural exchanges, and so on. Additionally, the general enclosure is open and continuous to blur the transition between the structure and the environmental space in which it is integrated. It also incorporates greenspaces within the building to further blur that transition between the built and natural environment. Generally, this visionary market building intends to be a catalyst for economic prosperity, community development, and urban revitalization to create a sustainable and innovative future for the city.

The form is largely curvilinear and open, with the glazed enclosure acting like a hollow tunnel that people can stroll through during and outside of programmatic hours. The enclosed portion of the building is more clustered in relativity to the rest of the space, but also encompasses the same curvilinear forms along the exterior.

Open pavilion space hovering over a series of independent systems— building enclosures, large expanses of open balcony and mezzanine spaces for recreation and learning, etc. The site itself is situated in proximity to large scale residential buildings, smaller house complexes, schools, and other markets which makes for the park being surrounded by a fair share of community spaces. Though out of place to implement a built structure into a green space, the blurring of boundaries established through the openness of the structure allows it to be better integrated into the site.

All programs on all floors of the market to be fully accessible, equipping the building with ADA compliant ramps, stairs and elevators. The public bathrooms include an ADA bathroom in both the female and male bathrooms.

FLOOR PLANS

ELEVATIONS

Rendered perspective at day of market under lower mezzanine

Rendered perspective at day on lower mezzanine

INTEGRATED BUILDING DESIGN

Invoice Number : #1

Invoice Date : 09/06/2023

Invoice To Carolyn Ubben +1 703-242-0184 507 Ridge Rd SW, Vienna, VA

From Ashley Ham +1 571 992 5788 200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY Grandtotal before tax: 40 Hrs $1000

Exercise For Building Services Course: Egress Development

Exercise For Building Services Course: Transparent Elements + Heat Flow Calculations

Exercise For Building Services Course: Principles, Components, and Systems

Exercise For Building Services Course: Sensible + Latent Heat Transfer

The Void

Cubes stretched over the vortex of a black hole, compressing as it reaches its centroid

First-year Representation elective :: experimental digital drawing

Studio Professor :: Amir Karimpour

Individual project :: 2 Weeks

Throughout the spring semester of 2022, I was tasked with analyzing the Petal House by Eric Owen Moss and focusing on a specific aspect or theme that would guide our drawings. In this final experimental drawing, my focus was on the spacially interconnected unique architectural elements in this project such as the folded roofplates, exterior ladder, diagonal windows, etc. As your eyes pan from one obscure component, it would meet in tangent with another unconventional feature. Yet, many of these elements featured patterns and/or shapes that called back to one another.