Ashley Ham Portfolio 2024 by Ashley Ham

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.

THE VOID

Cubes Streched Over Void

2021 FALL [Representation 1]

THE PETAL HOUSE ANALYSIS

Te Repetition Of Eccentric Elements

2022 SPRING [Representation 2]

LA MAISON DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ

Crown Heights Library Extension 2023 SPRING [Design 202]

MERCATO DI MANHATTA

Market and Community Learning Center 2023 FALL [Design 301]

ADDITIONAL WORKS

5 PERSONAL STUDIES

Work From Non-Design Classes 2023 FALL- PRESENT

Digital Photography

2022 SUMMER- 2023 SPRING

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

Troughout 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.

The Petal House Analysis

Te repetition of obscure and eccentric angles in the Petal House by Eric Owen Moss

Second-year Representation elective :: experimental digital drawing :: archived

Studio Professor :: Richard Yoo

Individual project :: 2 Weeks

La Maison de la Communauté

Crown Heights Library Extension

Library Extension :: Mixed Use :: Sustainable :: Accessible :: Urban Architecture :: Second-year spring studio

Studio Professor :: Maria Vrdoljak

Individual project :: 8 Weeks

Exploded Axonomentic Section

OVERVIEW:

Tis project is to design a library addition that sits on top the traditional Crown Heights Linsey box library. Te challenge with this specific project was to create a space that responsed to the spacial qualities of my precedent, Maison a Bordeaux which is balancing volumes. Additonally, the space needs to be able to be accessible after the library closes at night.

Rendered axonometic at night illuminating rooms

Rendered perspective at day from street view

PROJECT GOALS:

For this project, the main feature of my precedent building that I chose to focus on is the almost uncanny or unnatural juxtaposition between volumes creating a optical illusion like affect. Terefore for this structure I integrated the idea of balancing volumes with community integration and interaction.

I extruded the volumes breaking through the façade achieving a floating affect and allowing library occupants to interact with the community outside and (vice versa), as well as providing more light into the spaces from the southern sun. Additionally, I created another balance with voids between floors allowing sound to travel through wile still maintaining a level of privacy between spaces. Structurally, the columns do the same.

Te entrance is indented to create a more prominent/obvious entrance that can be seen from the street/ breaks off from the street and also creates a small communal garden space. In terms of program, the ground floor, which mimics the original Lindsey box, is dedicated to seniors and children with a small amphitheater/pit for events/read aloud. Te upper floors are for teens and adults separated into library and study/hangout spaces. Te top floor is the large theatre and production services.

Lastly, connecting the old library and new renovation are the open and close stair that are physically cutting into the original library space bridging the two spaces.

FLOOR PLANS

Market and Community Learning Center

New Construction :: Mixed Use :: Sustainable :: Urban Architecture :: Tird-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. Te 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. Te 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.

PROJECT GOALS:

Tis project encompasses various spaces for a diverse array of market vendors, correlating to temporary and permanent services. Te 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.

Te 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. Te 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. Te 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. Tough 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. Te public bathrooms include an ADA bathroom in both the female and male bathrooms.