portfolio.
claudia harach
01
CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS
2021
-ToolsArchicad + Indesign
Construction drawings for a holiday bach designed for a beach facing site in Waikanae. The bach was designed to comply with NZS3604. Drawings for the inner skin of the wall, showing structural members were completed and exterior elevation drawings of the bach were also made.
Wall framing - North Elevation
02 HIGH RISE DEVELOPMENT
-ToolsArchicad + Twinmotion + Rhinocerous 3D
As part of our 3rd year construction course, in a team of 3 students we designed the core of an 11 story building.
I assisted greatly with deciding the layout of the core to ensure it was functionally adequate and I created the plan drawing of the core as well as a number of 1:5 scale details of key areas.
SOURCES:
- GIBFireRatedSystemsManual requirementfordrywalls
- D1: Access Routes
- TALL: TheDesign and ConstructionofHigh Architecture by
03 HEKE RUA ARCHIVES
Course: ARCI 312
-ToolsIllustrator + Twinmotion + Rhinocerous 3D
As part of our design capstone project we were given the chance to design a proposal for the Wellington Archvies to be a national archive building for NZ.
We were tasked with using concrete for this project, and needed to consider the structural integrity of the building.
This piece of narrative architecture inspired by the passage “Einstein’s Dreams” by Alan Lightman which discusses ideas such as the fluidity of time. The fluid nature of the facade is a direct response to this passage.
NORTH ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION
04
At Home in the Garden
Design and Exhibtion
Course: SARC 455
2023
In this course we designed an exhibtion quality model which poses an idea for radicalising home in Aotearoa.
My take on a radical home is one that celebrates the garden. Inspired by memories and drawings of my grandmother’s garden.
I completed all work on my exhibition model including the construction of a plinth to exhibit it upon.
Our work was exhibited at Thistle Hall, and I played a part in putting together the exhibition - I designed and made the exhibition booklet and helped organise the layout of the gallery.
05 The Edge of Chaos
The Intercontinental Hotel Wellington
Course: ARCI 411 2023
-ToolsRhinocerous 3D + V-Ray + Photoshop + Illustrator
A design proposal for a new Intercontinental Hotel to be a landmark building for Wellington. The building incorporates both office spaces and hotel spaces, with hotel spaces offering exquisite harbour views.
The building sits between the heritage buildings which line the Wellington waterfront and the modern glass and steel highrises to the west of the site. Therefore, the building aims to collate the two typologies to create new form.
Images of machines were used as case studies for this project, inspiring the final buildings unique form.
Complex systems tend to locate themselves at a place we call ‘the edge of chaos.’ We imagine the edge of chaos as a place where there is enough innovation to keep a living system vibrant, and enough stability to keep it from collapsing into anarchy. It is a zone of conflict and upheaval, where the old and the new are constantly at war.
Finding the balance point must be a delicate matter––if a living system drifts too close, it risks falling over into incoherence and dissolution; but if the system moves too far away from the edge, it becomes rigid, frozen, totalitarian. Both conditions lead to extinction. Too much change is as destructive as too little. Only at the edge of chaos can complex systems flourish.
Michael Crichton, The Lost World
Left: Hotel Pod Assembly
Right: Process Sketch
lnterior Perspective: looking up in the atrium (view of the lifts and circulation system)
06
CONCEPT DESIGN PACKAGE
-ToolsRevit + Lumion + Photoshop + Lightroom
During the summer of 2022, I worked on the concept design of a project alongside Jimmy Mitchell from JM Architecture.
I created the final concept design drawings and the renders which were completed using Lumion.
The client was very happy with the final concept we put forward.
The Healthy Parasite
[Snippits from my masters thesis]
-ToolsRevit + V-Ray + Photoshop + Illustrator
This project celebrates bio-based plywood, biophilic design, and parasitic architecture. The research primarily focused on the sustainability of the material, resulting in a final design that extensively incorporates plywood in various forms.
The outcome is an adaptive reuse project for a music center located in the heart of Newtown. The design features abundant external and internal vegetation, ample natural light, and dynamic, expressive spaces. It addresses the complexities and advantages of adapting a heritage-listed building while serving as a model for sustainable adaptive reuse projects in Wellington.
The following images are renders of the various spaces designed throughout my thesis. I used v-ray, rhino and vray to complete the following.
Exteror view during Newtown festival
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