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CAROLINE GUINN Architecture | Design Portfolio K e y W o r k s , 2012-2016

PROJECTS 01 HOUSING AND THE CITY Los Angeles, CA | 2016

02 URBAN RUINS Rome, Italy | 2015

03 TANZAKADEMIE

New Orleans, LA | 2015

04 POETICS OF MATERIALITY New Orleans, LA | 2014

05 SURFACE MEDIATION New Orleans, LA | 2014

06 MUSEUM OF THE CITY PT. 1 & PT. 2 New Orleans, LA | 2013

07 FASHION ATELIER New York, NY | 2012

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HOUSING AND THE CITY West Hollywood Mixed-Use | Los Angeles, CA

Tulane University Spring 2016 Critic: Judith Kinnard Located on the well known strip of Santa Monica Boulevard, this half block mixed-use project boasts itself on its public plaza and residential courtyard to offer luscious, open spaces to adhere to the busy city life of Los Angeles while still enjoying the perfect climate through exterior spaces. The mixed-use building contains seven retails spaces on the ground level with 87 one and two-bedroom apartments all equipped with private exterior balconies. The design principles leading this project were relationships from interior to exterior formed through transparent surfaces along with open spaces all circulating around a ‘residential courtyard’ that takes the form of a heavily planted landscape.

site investigations

project volume

courtyard removal

plaza removal

expanding pedestrian flow

visual enhancement

shifting community space

academic work

level two plans

level one plans

latitudinal section

project 0I

santa monic

ca blvd & n harper ave

academic work

plaza activity

massing model in site

project 0I

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URBAN RUINS Mixed-Use | Rome, Italy

Pantheon Institute Fall 2015 Critic: Giovanna Galfione-Cox Located in the heart of Rome, Italy along the Tiber River, this project embraces the culture of preservation that is prevelant amongst Roman architecture. Urban Ruins is a proposal for a mixed use program including a community center, museum, and apartment housing that utilizes the existing roman ruins located on the site by enveloping them into the design. The design principles that drove this project was a central axis that was discovered through the unfolding of historic maps of this area. This axis and its strong relationship to the Tiber River as well as the existing building fabric was enhanced through the final building design in order to preserve the rich history of this area.

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academic work

site with ruins

ruin park exposure

new built fabric

project 02

ruins and axis

via guilia elevation

axis joiner

lungotevere elevation

academic work

via guilia entrance

project 02

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TANZAKADEMIE Dance Academy | New Orleans, LA Tulane University Spring 2015 Critic: Marianne Desmarais Comprehensive Studio Tanzakademie is the proposal of a dance studio located in the Central Business District of New Orleans.

This dance studio served as the requirement for the graduate comprehensive studio. The goal of this studio was to allow the student to practice all skills to date including site, program, circulation, structure, mechanical systems, sustainable practices, facade strategies, life safety, and materiality. This academy incorporates uses for both practice and performance, embracing the idea of movement and dance as the conceptual basis. The design principals that drove this project focused on redifining public and private spaces by blurring the lines between the audience and the performers.

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massing process

academic work

section a

lobby entrance

project 03

side street view

academic work

massing model depicting form

project 03

section perspective

academic work

roof assembly- epdm roofing over sloped insulation on top of composite lightweight concrete/steel deck facade roof assembly- waterproofing membrane on top with metal decking and 3” concrete topping upper operable ventilation- glass louver exhaust vents girder- 18” depth, fireproofed, span 18’9”, bay size 18’9” x 26’ composite beam- 10” depth, fireproofed, span 18’9” bay size 18’9” x 26’ steel structural ladder frame

suspended ceiling- to house lighting and air ducts

exploded facade

shading device- 1’ operable aluminum louvers lighting- recessed can lights spaces spaced 5’ apart

return air duct- centralized all-air system with vavs floor finish material- wood panels aid in acoustics

outer skin- double layer of low iron u-profile glass units with translucent insulation inner skin- single layer laminated glass wall system maintenance catwalk- welded catwalk assembly anchored to structural stay for horizontal load resistance

3’0” deep air space- provides added insulating depth and enables maintenance access

lower operable ventilation- operable damper vents concrete pile cap

foundation- 18” depth concrete slab with concrete grade beams

double-facade plan, section, and elevation

project 03

04

POETICS OF MATERIALS Building Arts Institute | New Orleans, LA

Tulane University Spring 2014 Critic: Kentaro Tsubaki The Building Arts Institute is a community building for local artisans in the New Orleans area. Its mission is to ensure that the public understanding and appreciation of the building trades as an art form continues to evolve over time. The site of the institute is a city block located in uptown New Orleans. The project focused on siting strategies, programming, and material articulation and assemblage details. My project evolved from the three different ideas at three different scales. The large idea deals with the site. I chose to place the institutue in an old and thriving neighborhood as a way to join a network thats already established. The medium idea deals with site strategy within the block. I chose to place the education program on a street that already houses two schools as a way to link the existing schools and create an education corridor. The campus style layout of my design allows for maintainig the foot print and scale of the existing neighborhood. The overall program creates a solid/void axial alignment with the surrounding building fabric. The small idea deals with the perimeter entrance wall that was designed out of brick. This wall system, comprised of brick panels, expands and creates new limits with an old material through the use of steel and brick while creating a threshold condition as the entrance to the institute.

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site plan

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diagram depicting program and circulation

level one plans

academic work

longitudinal section

latitudinal section

main entrance (east) elevation

project 04

north elevation

south elevation

west elevation

academic work

brick wall panel system plan view

wall section at entrance

basswood model of brick wall panel system at entrance

project 04

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SURFACE MEDIATION Stair Design | New Orleans, LA

Tulane University Fall 2014 Critic: David Merlin The intention behind the design of the “floating staircase� is that it acts as a subtle floating sculpurtal object. The staircase achieves this by its hallowness design. Made from a dark stone, the staircase is suspended from the ceiling by a system of steel cables to obtain this floating effect. The bottom of one stair extends out to form the top of the next, creating a continuous surface from the first level to the second.

academic work

stair detail

perspective

section perspective

project 05

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M U S E U M O F T H E C I TY P T. 1 Urban Analysis | New Orleans, LA

Tulane University Fall 2013 Critic: Tom Holloman A study was done to observe and analyze the city of New Orleans through a series of diagrams. These diagrams looked at its region, its overall form, history, structure, and its constituent neighborhoods. From these examinations, the built environment of New Orleans began to unravel.

After discoveries were revealed, these analysis served as architectural and tectonic base elements from which the Museum of the City was developed. The diagram to the right zooms in to observe the immediate context that surrounds the building site through studies of built fabric, road conditions, and a shifting grid structure.

academic work

project 06

area above sea level

built fabric along river

synthesizing topography

academic work

side view synthesis model

synthesis model

plan view synthesis model

project 06

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M U S E U M O F T H E C I TY P T. 2 Museum | New Orleans, LA

Tulane University Fall 2013 Critic: Tom Holloman The site for the Museum of the City was located at 619 Frenchman Street, current home of the Frenchman Street Art Market. The area of the site was 23’ x 160’. My design themes when developing the Museum of the City stemmed from analyzing the city of New Orleans as well as the Marigny neighborhood. The themes that drove the design were overlapping spaces, the ways a certain view can change ones experience, this idea of the center of the city block serving as an anchor, and disolving boundaries between indoor and outdoor space. Transitioning from the busy street into the museum is achieved through an outdoor breezeway leading you into the Museum of the City. As you circulate throughout the museum on these linear paths, you arrive at the outdoor courtyard (pictured on the right ) to end the museum visit with the famous New Orleans Jazz tunes.

site plan of 619 frenchman street and surrounding area

SITE PL AN SCALE : 1/32” = 1’ - 0”

academic work

basswood model

basswood model in site

project 06

exterior perspective

academic work

linear gallery

cube: gallery extension

main entrance

project 06

07

FASHION ATELIER Installation | New York, NY

New York/Paris Columbia University Fall 2012 Critic: Jane Kim My project manifested through an obsession with reflection. From captured reflection in windows of the Opera House and the Theatre at Lincoln Center, I diagrammed circulation of light and virtual construction of perceived space. Forms that were created in this diagram served as construction guides to my Fashion Atelier. I then continued my Fashion Atelier explorations through a digital media class a few years later.

The design that was earlier achieved by hand was transformed and manipulated into a computer model.

The rendering to the right shows the 3-dimensional explorations placed in Marfa, TX as a roadside installation.

diagram showing virtual construction of perceived spaces

academic work

longitudinal section of model

fashion atelier constructed from woven bristol board

project 07

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