Clara Hetherington Architecture Portfolio

CLARA HETHERINGTON ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

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S t e p p i n g To w a r d S u s t a i n a b i l i t y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 - 2 7 Hand Drawing in the Digital Age................28-31

A LT U S A R C H I T E C T U R A L S T U D I O S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 - 4 1

PERSONAL WORK........................................................42-47

RESUME | CL ARA HETHERINGTON (402 )880-057 7 | hethno123@gmail.com | 2 2 73 S. 135th Avenue Omaha NE , 6814 4

OBJECTIVE:

I am looking to expand my skills in the field through continuing my education at an A r c h i t e c t u r e f i r m d u r i n g t h e s u m m e r a n d i n t o t h e s c h o o l y e a r. I a m e x c i t e d t o f i n d e x p e r i e n c e t h r o u g h a n y o p p o r t u n i t y t h a t c o m e s m y w a y.

P E R S O N A L : I very much enjoy volunteering and giving back to my community when I can, which is why I have done volunteer work at the Sienna Francis House in Omaha and the Good Samaritan Center in Lincoln.

I also enjoy painting and drawing in my free time, and have even been commissioned to paint a few murals.

S p e n d i n g m y t i m e w i t h f a m i l y, r e a d i n g l o t s o f b o o k s , a n d s tu d y i n g t a k e u p m o s t o f m y f r e e t i m e .

EXPERIENCE

E D U C AT I O N

Intern | Altus Architectural Studios

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

May 202 2 - Currently Employed

Currently Enrolled, 4th year

I have gained critical field experience throughout

After deciding to switch from Chemical

this internship by sitting in on client meetings,

Engineering to Architecture during my second

developing diagrams, floor plans, and renders

year of college, I completed my undergraduate

to present to clients, and being a part of the

c a re e r wi th a B a c h e l o r ’s o f S c i e n c e i n D e s i g n i n

planning process. I worked on a large range of

th e Sp ri n g o f 2 0 23 . I a m n ow p u r su i n g my Maste r ’s

projects within the healthcare field, as well as

of Architecture and am currently enrolled as a

small scale projects including gyms, a tennis

first year graduate student , set to graduate spring

clubhouse, dermatology retail and more. Picking up

of 2025.

redlines on construction documents and annotating sections and plans has expanded my knowledge on the technical side of projects. I also work with

Millard North High School August 2014 - May 2018

our director of marketing in reformatting resumes,

I m a i n t a i n e d a 4 . 0 G PA f o r m o s t o f h i g h s c h o o l ,

project proposal layouts, and social media posts to

which allowed me to letter in academics and

f u r th e r o u r f i rm’s o u tre a c h a n d ga i n n e w p ro j e c t s

m a k e i t o n t h e D e a n ’s L i s t e a c h s e m e s t e r. I t o o k

and clients.

an AP physics class as well as many advanced

Te a m L e a d | P a n e r a B r e a d May 2020 - May 2022

math courses and several ar t classes. I graduated high school with several scholarships to different colleges including UNL , UNO, and

I was trained as front cash, food production, and

Iowa State.

drive-thru. I did most work in drive-thru taking

AWA R D S / AC C O M P L I S H M E N T S

orders, making food, and cashing customers out. I learned a lot about team leadership and delegating tasks, as well as how to communicate effectively with customers and my team members.

S O F T WA R E Rhino Revit Illustrator InDesign Photoshop Enscape Lumion Tw i n M o t i o n

- SGH Concepts & Dri-Design Competition Finalist - A rc h i te c tu re D e a n’s L ist - Thomas Laging Scholarship - D av i d ’s D ist i n g u ish e d S c h o la r sh i p - G o l d e n K e y Awa rds Su m m e r A r t s F e st i va l

REFERENCES Evan Lamprecht

Vice President Altus Architectural Studios elamprecht@altusstudios.com (4 0 2 ) 2 3 8 - 5 8 4 2

Michael Hamilton President Altus Architectural Studios mhamilton@altusstudios.com (4 0 2 ) 3 2 1 - 5 6 5 4

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DESIGN INTEGRATE

PLEASE TOUCH THE ART CLARA HETHERINGTON, GRACE CARLSON, SIDNEY RENELT

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The Sheldon Art Museum is a hub for expression.

Thousands of art pieces are stored and exhibited within this building. In each piece that is on display at the Sheldon, there was a unique creative process that occurred in order to express the message that each artist wanted to portray, but the only part of this process that the viewers are seeing is exhibition. The goal of our addition to the Sheldon is to create a space that allows for UNL students to be fully immersed in the creative process. “Please Touch the Art” is an informal approach to taking in how art is traditionally observed

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and created. Through colorful, immersive installations and spaces where creativity can be fully expressed, this building engages its occupants in the creative process so that they can view themselves as artists. Looking at this creative process, we categorized each level of our addition into a different part of this process; LEARN, CREATE, and EXHIBIT. The learn floor serves as part of the creative process where occupants learn and are inspired by art. Moving to the create floor, students can engage and be inspired by other students engaging in the creative process through the creation of individual

work. The exhibition floor allows students to view and exhibit their own artwork as well as participate in an exhibition that allows for them to leave their mark on the building. These three levels are connected through a grand staircase allowing students to craft their own creative journey as they travel through each space.

Sidney Renelt, Grace Carlson, and I were chosen to compete in the SGH + Dri Design Competition and had the opportunity to share “Please Touch the Art” with students. staff, and a select panel of reviewers.

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DESIGN INTEGRATE

place for inspiration

place for creation place for expression

place for inspiration

place for learning

place for engagement place for relaxation

STUDENT CONTROLLED INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

place for exhibition

STUDENT ART GALLERY

MAKER’S SPACE

ACCESS TO GREEN ROOF

RESERVABLE CLASSROOM SPACE

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SIDEWALK ENTRY ITERACTIVE INSTALLATION ACCESS TO SUNKEN COURTYARD

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This iterative process details different moves we experimented with in filling the Sunken Gardens with our added programming.

Throughout this process, we conducted explorations on massing, leaving space within the Sunken gardens open, different access points and the connection to the Sheldon Art Museum.

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DESIGN INTEGRATE

FACILITATE INDIVIDUALIZED CREATIVE EXPRESSION

ESTABLISH CREATIVE COMMUNITY GREEN ROOF

MAKE CREATION VISIBLE Upon completion of massing and structure, we were able to achieve goals directed towards fostering creativity and expression within the community.

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SUNKEN COURTYARD

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DESIGN INTEGRATE

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EXTERIOR LOUNGE COURTYARD

RESERVABLE CLASSROOM SPACE 9

DESIGN INTEGRATE

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MAKERS SPACE

LOUNGE SPACE

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DESIGN INTEGRATE

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STUDENT EXHIBITION

STUDENT CONTROLLED ART INSTALLATION 13

DESIGN INTEGRATE

Follow this link for an interactive experience in “Please Touch the Art” https://kuula.co/share/collection/7F8QX?logo=1&info=1&fs=1&vr=0&sd=1&thumbs=1

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN RESEARCH: SPECULATE

ELEVATE HEALTH + WELLNESS CENTER CLARA HETHERINGTON

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The focus of this project was directed towards speculating a potential Omaha Urban Core site redesign with a large site encapsulating the new Farnam Streetcar line and ranging to Turner Park. In choosing a portion of this site to invigorate, I focused on capping the interstate from Douglas St. to Harney St. as well as situating program on the East Blocks adjacent to Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church and the Alma Apartments. This project required speculation on sustainable and resilient design and cohesion with the community in this area. After doing extensive research

on the existing programming and opportunities for implementations regarding live, work, play, environment, and transportation, research was compiled and utilized in developing master plans of speculative urban core redesign. This project aims to promote sustainability within both the community and the environment by creating a fusion of spaces that offer educational resources, community engagement opportunities, and connectivity through site lines and stepping forms.

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Speculating this project through to schematic design phase allowed for envisioning preliminary massing, floor plan layouts, and renders. This concept diagram highlights the main components of my design that influenced building form, program adjacencies, and structural orientations.

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This site plan calls out the future streetcar line and stop locations, and highlights the overall programming I have allocated to my portion of the site. The plan also indicates that each proposed building implements rooftop solar panels with orientations facing downwards south to optimize efficiency and aid the site in its mission of sustainability.

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN RESEARCH: SPECULATE

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GARDEN PAVILION

27TH AVE LOOKING SOUTH 21

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN RESEARCH: SPECULATE

Student workspace in this area of the site is intended for use by students at the University of NebraskaOmaha and Metropolitan Community college with a focus in horticulture and environmental science.

This workspace area offers study space as well as areas for individual or group work, and students will work to maintain gardens throughout the site as well as run the Environmental Education Center located on the southern interstate cap.

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The top level of this structure acts as an event center for the Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church, with a pedestrian bridge connecting the community with the garden pavilion.

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN RESEARCH: SPECULATE

KOUNTZE EVENT CENTER

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN RESEARCH: SPECULATE

This lookout point allows the public to view sustainable solutions in an area where water retention is possible through the use of permeable surface to catch water runoff. This filtered water will be re-purposed to serve the gardens on the site.

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EDUCATION CENTER

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HAND DRAWING IN THE DIGITAL AGE

VISIBLE CITIES CLARA HETHERINGTON

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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino describes beautifully intricate, surreal cities in the Kahn’s domain, with different chapters falling under specific categories of the way in which the architecture is described and envisioned. This drawing was inspired by his chapters regarding “Architecture and Memory”, where each imaginary city is hand drawn and digitally shaded to represent my interpretations of the wondrous cities detailed by Calvino’s descriptive writing.

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Maurilia

Maurilia

Maurilia

Maurilia

Zora

Zora

Zora

Zora

Zaira

Zaira

Zaira

Diomira

Isidora

Isidora

Isidora

Isidora

“In Maurilia, the traveler is invited to visit the city and, at the same time, to examine some old post cards that show it as it used to be: the same identical square with a hen in the place of a bus station, a bandstand in the place of the overpass...”

“Zora has the quality of remaining in your memory point by point, in its succession of streets, of houses along the streets, and of doors and windows in the houses, though nothing in them possesses a special beauty or rarity.”

“The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past.”

“Buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third...”

“Admitting that the magnificence and prosperity of the metropolis Maurilia, when compared to the old, provincial Maurilia, cannot compensate for a certain lost grace.”

“He remembers the order by which the copper clock follows the barber’s striped awning, then the fountain with nine jets, the astronomer’s glass tower...”

“I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades’ curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know this would be the same as telling you nothing.”

“Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference.”

“Beware of saying to them that sometimes different cities follow one another on the same site and under the same name, born and dying without knowing one another, without communication among themselves.”

“This city which cannot be expunged from the mind is like an armature, a honeycomb in whose cells each of us can place the things he wants to remember...”

“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the bannisters of the steps,... every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.”

“The dreamed of city contained him as a young man; he arrives at Isidora in his old age.”

“At times even the names of the inhabitants remain the same, and their voices’ accent, and also the features of the faces; but the gods who live beneath names and above places have gone off without a word and outsiders have settled in their places.”

“Zora’s secret lies in the way your gaze runs over patterns following one another as in a musical score where not a note can be altered or displaced.”

“A city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the gods, streets paved with lead, a crystal theater, a golden cock that crows each morning on a tower.”

“In the square there is a wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in a row with them. Desires are already a memory.”

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HAND DRAWING IN THE DIGITAL AGE

“At times even the names of the inhabitants remain the same, and their voices’ accent, and also the features of the faces; but the gods who live beneath the names and above the places have gone off without a word and outsiders have settled in their place” (Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities).

ARCHITECTURE AND MEMORY CLARA HETHERINGTON

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This project explores the relationship between architecture and memory. Each drawing on the left side of the spread depicts imaginary cities growing out of a person’s head, resembling the “postcard” image of what the city and person used to look like in their prime, encompassing the relationship between a person and their most cherished memories of different places. Next to each postcard the faces and cities begin to blur, pixilate, distort, and disperse signifying the breakdown of memory over time, both regarding the inner self and the memories of place. Buildings and facial features begin to run together, creating a cloudy mess of broken memories.

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ALTUS ARCHITECTURAL STUDIOS

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL WEST OMAHA SATELLITE CLINIC 20502 Roosevelt St, Omaha NE

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Children’s Hospital is set to open this year as a new outpatient facility to serve young children and their families. I had the opportunity to help this project along during multiple stages. My work on this project included addressing redlines for construction documents, detailing wall sections and floor plans, creating “Kuula” panoramic VR views, and renderings for client use as well as our website. I also had the opportunity to visit this site recently and sit in on an OAC meeting, as well as walk through the building and look for any issues with construction thus far.

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MYRTUE MEDICAL CENTER 1213 Garfield Avenue, Harlan IA

I have been helping with this project since summer of 2022 when it first began in schematic design phase. I sat in on initial client meetings and developed design options in Revit for an addition/expansion of their existing emergency department. Working with lead architects on this project, I learned important aspects of ED layouts and configurations and developed deliverables for client meetings. I also helped with posting addendums, detailing wall sections, and carrying out redlines through the Construction Administration phase. I also created a site topography model in Rhino to combine with the Revit model in Twinmotion for renderings.

I have also assisted in annotating floor and finish plans, and creating layouts for the renovation of this hospital’s Cafe and Cafeteria.

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RAISE SILL HEIGHT TO 3' 6", REPLACE WITH OPERABLE WINDOWS

HOT DOG ROLLER

TO BE REPLACED

TO BE REPLACED WITH TRANSACTION WINDOW

STANDING HEIGHT SHELF WITH PA SYSTEM CASEWORK AND TWO FRIDGES UNDERNEATH

DUTCH DOOR TO REPLACE WINDOW, ADD OVERHEAD COVERING

OUTSIDE MENU?

RELOCATE DEFIBRILLATOR? SEAT HEIGHT WORKSTATIONS WITH KNEE SPACE STORAGE SPACE UNDERNEATH

POINT OF SALE? MENU?

ADA TRANSACTION SPACE

NEW FLOORING & PAINT FINISH SCOPE?

FLOOR PLAN LEVEL 1 OPTION 1 KOCH TENNIS COMPLEX

KOCH TENNIS CLUBHOUSE

12440 W Maple Rd, Omaha NE

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6/7/23 © ALTUS ARCHITECTURAL STUDIOS, INC

Altus teamed up with Olsson and Koch Tennis Clubhouse to reconfigure the check in/concessions area, replace windows, and add a Dutch door to this space. I began this project by creating a model in Revit from existing CAD drawings. Once the existing space was fully modeled I worked with our interior designers to model three layouts for check in desk configurations.

I also took part in an initial client meeting where I presented these three options and recorded notes on what the client’s preferences were in regards to these options.

RAISE SILL HEIGHT TO 3' 6", REPLACE WITH OPERABLE WINDOWS

HOT DOG ROLLER

TO BE REPLACED

TO BE REPLACED WITH TRANSACTION WINDOW

STANDING HEIGHT SHELF WITH PA SYSTEM CASEWORK UNDERNEATH

DUTCH DOOR TO REPLACE WINDOW, ADD OVERHEAD COVERING

OUTSIDE MENU?

RELOCATE DEFIBRILLATOR?

POP COOLER

SEAT HEIGHT WORKSTATIONS WITH KNEE SPACE STORAGE SPACE UNDERNEATH

POINT OF SALE?

MENU BOARD ADA TRANSACTION SPACE

NEW FLOORING & PAINT FINISH SCOPE?

FLOOR PLAN LEVEL 1 OPTION 2

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KOCH TENNIS COMPLEX

© ALTUS ARCHITECTURAL STUDIOS, INC

RAISE SILL HEIGHT TO 3' 6", REPLACE WITH OPERABLE WINDOWS

HOT DOG ROLLER

TO BE REPLACED

TO BE REPLACED WITH TRANSACTION WINDOW

STANDING HEIGHT SHELF WITH PA SYSTEM CASEWORK UNDERNEATH

DUTCH DOOR TO REPLACE WINDOW, ADD OVERHEAD COVERING

OUTSIDE MENU?

RELOCATE DEFIBRILLATOR?

POP COOLER

SEAT HEIGHT WORKSTATIONS WITH KNEE SPACE STORAGE SPACE UNDERNEATH

POINT OF SALE?

MENU BOARD ADA TRANSACTION SPACE

NEW FLOORING & PAINT FINISH SCOPE?

FLOOR PLAN LEVEL 1 OPTION 3 KOCH TENNIS COMPLEX

6/7/23 © ALTUS ARCHITECTURAL STUDIOS, INC

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EMERALD NURSING AND REHABILITATION 7410 Mercy Rd, Omaha NE

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Altus worked with Emerald Nursing to remodel components of this existing structure. I was asked to create renderings of the exterior for the client, and this was my first attempt at using Twinmotion. I worked in Rhino to create a simple site model for additional site context. In Twinmmotion I had to match brick and panel colors to get an accurate depiction of the exterior facade. I also worked in Photoshop to add signage. This project was a fantastic opportunity for me to experiment with Twinmotion and to facilitate a workflow between programs.

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ALTUS ARCHITECTURAL STUDIOS Project Examples

Nebraska Medical Center Monroe-Meyer Institute for Rehabilitation (MMI) OMAHA, NE

MMI has been a world leader in transforming the lives of all individuals with disabilities and complex health care needs. Its patients include some of the nation’s most under-served, including those with autism spectrum and severe behavioral disorders.

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Planning & Programming Schematic Design Design Development Construction Documents Permitting Construction Administration SIZE

220,078 SF

MMI’s existing home was an aging facility that had long outgrown its usefulness. UNMC committed to building a new, world-class facility where interdisciplinary care could be efficiently delivered in an innovative, accessible and family-centric environment.

The project included renovation and redevelopment of an existing building under an aggressive timeline and controlled budget. Valueengineering, extensive collaboration and careful planning were necessary to create MMI’s new home.

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ALTUS MARKETING

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I have worked with our director of marketing on many different projects throughout my time at Altus. This is an example of a project page highlighting our work done at the Monroe Meyer Institute in Omaha. I have laid out all of our projects in this established format for different marketing pursuits and am still working with our Director to ensure that we have an effective system for organizing project pages to pull for project proposals.

Other marketing duties that I carry out include updating team member resumes and formatting posts for social media.

Nebraska Medical Center Monroe-Meyer Institute for Rehabilitation

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PERSONAL WORK

Rainbow Bass Prismacolor Pencil

Ducks Prismacolor Pencil 42

Nostalgia Prismacolor Pencils 43

PERSONAL WORK

Shoe Mural Latex Paint

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Duck Mural Latex Paint

Duck Mural Latex Paint 45

PERSONAL WORK

Sunset Painting Oil

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Winter’s Chill Acrylic Paint

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