Undergraduate Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE P ORTFOLIO caroline kacsur

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CABANON

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EXPERIENCE RELATED Aug 2020 - Current

Clemson Main Campus Assist the Communications Coordinator for the School of Architecture and Construction Science and Management Department; mainly ran the social media pages for the School of Architecture, but also worked on School of Architecture website.

CONTACT Caroline Kacsur carolinekacsur@gmail.com 803.873.5018 www.linkedin.com/in/ carolinekacsur

Clemson University Student Assistant

Jan 2020 - July 2020

Clemson Design Center Charleston Assisted the Adminstrative Manager with housekeeping tasks in the Center and ran the Center’s social media pages; assisted the Director of the Center with creating base floor plans of every room and laying out spaces to be COVID-19 social distance compliant.

UNRELATED June 2019 - Aug 2019

Hostess at Miyo’s on Forest Columbia, SC

June 2018 - Aug 2018

Baker/Cashier at Nestle Toll House Cafe Columbia, SC

April 2017 - Aug 2017

Baker/Cashier at Smallcakes Cupcakes Columbia, SC

EDUCATION Clemson University GPA 3.59, B.A. in Architecture 2021, Minor in Sustainability Member of American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) 20172020 Chair for the 2020 AIAS South Quad Conference College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities Ambassador 20192020

TECHNICAL SKILLS Rhinoceros AutoCAD Lumion Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Lightroom Sketchup Microsoft Office Revit Woodshop equipment Laser cutter 3D printer

RU L E D SU R FA C E This project helped me to explore architecture through the use of ruled surfaces. For this exercise, I started with two different abstract hand drawings of ruled surfaces and furthered one into a physical model based on my own interpretation of the heights and cavities.

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model detail

physical model

model

hand drawings

ruled surface | 3

digital wireframe model

digital solid model with volumes

digital section of solid model

digital section of solid model

wireframe model

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solid model

BOOLEAN Through this project, I was able to explore the concept of Boolean architecture. The project had two main deliverables: a wireframe 1’ box with volumes intersecting each face, as well as a solid representation of the wireframe with the volumes represented by a lack of space. The project created a visual for intersecting volumes that eventually take on the inverted state - subtraction versus addition.

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Cabanon 2019 Professor Joseph Choma

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For this project, I moved forward with the ruled surface workshop and designed five cabins that utilized ruled sufaces on Issaqueena Lake in Clemson, SC. I strayed from my original ruled surface practice and used surfaces that seemed to twist instead.

Three of the cabins remained at the same scale, while the other two changed scale and became larger and therefore were more offset into the land. With this in mind, I moved forward with diagrams that show the ruled surfaces in action as well as how these cabins interact with the site.

model detail

physical model

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diagrammatic site plan

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rendered site plan

section perspective

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isometric

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ghosted isometric

CONNECTION

connection

cabins

CABINS

site

SITE

exploded axonometric

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physical model

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physical model

physical model interior perspective

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The Cave.

Spring 2019 Professor Joseph Choma

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The Cave is a branch library based in the Cottontown neighborhood of downtown Columbia, SC. For the library, I started with a specific field condition - wood grain and used this condition to influence the interior space of the library. I interpreted woodgrain as a way fo defining a topographical space. This then created this cave-like interior and countered exterior facade.

This project is defined by many diagrams as well as a section model.

physical model

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site plan

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transverse section

longitudinal section

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plan perspective

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exploded axonometric

ghosted isometric contour

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physical section model

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light diagram

restrooms

offices

hvac

auditorium

storage

classrooms book stacks

program diagram

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Flow.

Fall 2019 Professor Douglas Hecker Completed with Summer Gallman

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FLOW is a coworking office building located on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. The space is a designated coworking space where different companies can use the floors as different workable areas.

FLOW is focused around the experience that the average employee has within their workplace. This building aims to help soothe employees’ stress by providing experiential water on every floor. The water is a mixture between rainwater collected on the roof and plumbing and flows through every floor to eventually meet at the ground floor and be expelled into the site. The incorporation of water aims to change the work environment from a “corporate” one to a more peaceful one and therefore encourage productivity, mindfulness, and optimism.

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rendered site plan

by Summer Gallman

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mass

building

sidewalk

circulation

splash pad

park infinity pond streams

combine

shift

ice skating rink

form diagrams

by Summer Gallman

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Floor 2

Floor 7

Floor 7

open floor plans

by Caroline Kacsur

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detailed plans (floors 3 + 8)

by Caroline Kacsur

interior render

by Summer Gallman

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section perspective

by Summer Gallman

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mechanical

private (office)

public (circulation)

private (office)

public (circulation)

private (office)

public (lobby) program

by Caroline Kacsur

water circulation

by Caroline Kacsur

interior render

by Summer Gallman

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model photo

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model photo

by Summer Gallman + Caroline Kacsur

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Singleton Park Spring 2020 Professor Ray Huff Completed with Summer Gallman, Marissa Cutry, and Celia Gannaway

Singleton Park is a block redevelopment design.

We took the current Singleton Park in downtown Charleston, South Carolina and redesigned the park taking into consideration elevation changes and the issue of flooding, as well as redesigned three of the four adjacent blocks on Hanover Street, Nassau Street, and Conroy Street. As a group, we developed the park design, however, Summer Gallman and I focused on the redesign of the site on Hanover Street, incorporating a mixed-used structure meant to increase population density.

front render

by Summer Gallman

block plan + park

by Celia Gannaway

water level comparisons (low, mid, high)

by Celia Gannaway section a - n. nassau street

section b - conroy street

street sections

by Marissa Cutry

ground retail plan + park

by Caroline Kacsur

office plan a

residential plan a

office plan b

residential plan b

floor plans

by Caroline Kacsur

14’ FEMA 14’ FEMA section of podium

by Summer Gallman

residential

office

retail massing section

by Caroline Kacsur

14’ FEMA

FEMA 14’ 14’ FEMA

longitudinal section through block

by Summer Gallman

FEMA 14’14’FEMA

transverse section through block

by Summer Gallman

render from outdoor plaza

render from n. nassau site

COVID-19 Plans + Layouts Summer 2020 Directed under Professor and Director Ray Huff

I assisted the Director of the Clemson Design Center Charleston Campus, Ray Huff, with organizing plans and layouts of the studio spaces for the Fall 2020 semester to send to the director of the architecture department at Clemson. This meant using a base floor plan of the Center to create plans of every room individually, paying close attention to scale and lineweights. Once the plans were created, I explored how to layout studio desks in several studio spaces following COVID-19 social distancing guidelines.

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base plan of Clemson Design Charleston

2nd Floor Room Layouts

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architecture + health studio A+H STUDIO: 8 students + professor 0' 1'

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mrud studio A+H

MRUD STUDIO: 12 students (divided between MRUD and arch) + 1 professor 0' 1'

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MRUD