2025 Design Portfolio - CScalora

CAROLINE SCALORA UNDERGRADUATE DESIGN PORTFOLIO

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE ‘25 | AUBURN UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABILITY MINOR | HONORS COLLEGE

CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

CONTENTS URBAN FABRIC

SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS

Huntsville Dance

Graduate Student Housing

Gracia, Barcelona Community Center

Wood Design Competition

Charleston Cruise Ship Terminal

Freedom by Design Agrivoltaics

Spring 2024; page 4

Spring 2023; page 14

Fall 2023; page 18

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Fall 2024; page 24

Spring 2022; page 33

Fall 2021; page 38

DIGITAL INVESTIGATIONS

ANALOG EXPLORATIONS

AI Exploration

Light Box Study

Fall 2024; page 39

Fall 2020; page 43

Digital + Film Photography

Design Build “Place for Sitting”

2020-2024; page 42

Spring 2021; page 46

Graphite Renderings Fall 2024; page 49

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HUNTSVILLE DANCE; INTEGRATED DESIGN STUDIO Design Intent, Spring 2024

Once a rural Alabamian town, Huntsville, Alabama became THE Space Capital of the World upon the relocation of Werner von Braun to the city. NASA expanded its research and development of its space rocket program through its Apollo missions, propelling the US as a major leader in the world’s first space race.The space race led to values and cultural mindsets such as exploration, national pride, hope for mankind, promotion of futuristic ideals, harnessing of technology, the US as a sphere of influence, monumentality, and pushing design to the limits. Families that moved to Huntsville pushed the population and urban sprawl to a new level, however each of these families had a personal connection to NASA, space exploration, and great pride for being a Hunstvillian. This point in time influenced other cultural movements such as television shows like The Jetsons, or Googie and Neo-Formalist design styles. In 2024, Huntsville finds itself in a similar situation as before, as a new space race to establish further research and launch man to Mars is upon the world. Huntsville is redefining itself as the Space Capital of the World, as it competes with other countries such as Russia, India, and Japan. The new NASA missions, named Artemis, are interlinked and tied to the Apollo missions in more ways than one, as Artemis and Apollo are twins in Greek mythology. Similar to the missions, neo-formalism is defined as wedding building forms of the past with new forms enabled by technological advances - just as the Apollo and Artemis missions are wed through similarities and technology overtime. Huntsville is linking the past and present of their space history, allowing for this project to have concepts relative to its cultural, physical and historical context: compression and release, energy and motion, the art of people moving, and discovery.

URBAN FABRIC

release compression

compression + release form concept

discovery through circulation

ability for passive heating/cooling

ground floor as public space

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CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor/Occupiable Roof Plan Ground Floor Plan

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URBAN FABRIC

Section Perspective

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CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Latitudinal Section

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URBAN FABRIC (07400) STANDING SEAM METAL ROOF (07100) WATERPROOF MEMBRANE (072100) 4” EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENE RIGID INSULATION (074293) EXTERIOR ALUMINUM SOFFIT SOFFIT CAVITY FOR VENTILATION

(088000) GLAZING (081216) CURTAIN WALL

(096466) MIRROR MOUNTED ON WALL

BALLET BARRE MOUNTED TO WALL

(05100) W14x132 STEEL BEAM (05100) W30x191 STEEL BEAM

(211313) SPRINKLER SYSTEM

(265116) RECESSED CAN LIGHTS (260529) HANG WIRE (095113) DRYWALL SUSPENSION SYSTEM (233113) RECTANGULAR DUCTS (230713) DUCT INSULATION

(05100) STEEL COLUMN (09600) WOOD FLOOR (05300) CONCRETE OVER ACOUSTICAL METAL DECK METAL DECKING (074633) FASCIA (05100) CANTILEVERED STEEL BEAM (05100) STEEL GIRDER (07800) FIREPROOFING PAINT

(072600) VAPOR BARRIER

(096340) CONCRETE SLAB (096340) CONCRETE FOOTING

(096340) 6”x12” CONCRETE PAVERS (03300) CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE (04040) COMPACTED GRAVEL (02300) SOIL

Left: Wall Section Detail Right: Wall Section Detail Perspective

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CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Interior Perspective

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URBAN FABRIC

Longitudinal Section

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CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

2’ 0” x 26’ 6” STEEL BEAM

2’ 6” x 24’ 6” STEEL BEAM 1’ 3” x 24’ 6” STEEL GIRDER

15’ 6” STEEL COLUMN

18’ STEEL COLUMN

CONCRETE FOOTER CORE 2-HOUR FIRE-RATED 25’ 0” 42’ 4” 16’ 3” 15’ 0”

14’ 5”

16’ 6” 53’ 11” 16’ 6”

COMMUNITY CAFE THEATER SCENE SHOP DRESSING ROOM STAGE WINGS CONF. ROOM PRIVATE OFFICE OPEN OFFICE

26’ 45’

62’

72’

55’

53’

60’

LEVEL 2

FLOOR 1

FLOOR 2 61’

DIRECT EXITS (STAIR/ELEVATOR/DOOR) COMMON PATH

EGRESS AND LIFE SAFETY ASSESSMENT Above: Structural Diagram Below: Egress + Life Safety Assessment

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2336 1688 1143 872 412 659 1443

N assembly group A-3 (net) assembly group A-3 (net) assembly group A-1 (net) business group B (gross) assembly group A-1 (net) assembly group A-1 (net) assembly group A-1 (gross) business group B (gross) business group B (gross) business group B (gross)

15 15 225 150 50 15 15 150 150 150

369.3 132.5 15.6 33.8 76.2 58.1 2.7 4.4 9.6

TOTAL OCCUPANT LOAD LEVEL 1: 929.153

74’ 71’

5539 1988

M EN O T LO CC AD UP AN T

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LEVEL 1 LOBBY

55’

C RE OD Q E UI RE

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STRUCTURAL DESIGN DETAIL AXONOMETRIC VIEW

STRUCTURAL DESIGN AXONOMETRIC VIEW

O TY CC PE UP A

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16’ 6”

S FO QU O AR TA E G E

AM

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31’ 9”

CY

16’ 6”

FLOOR 3 66’

LEVEL 3

STORAGE 1682 DANCE STUDIO I 2595 COSTUME/LAUNDRY 470 LIGHTING EQUIP. 470 THEATER CONTROL 486 CONF. ROOM 1242 BOARD ROOM 1060 THEATER BALCONY

DANCE STUDIO II ROOF DECK

2203 2255

storage group S-2 (gross) assembly group A-3 (gross) business group B (gross) business group B (gross) business group B (gross) business group B (gross) business group B (gross) assembly group A-1 (net)

300 15 150 150 150 150 150 100

5.4 173 3.1 3.1 3.2 8.3 7

assembly group A-3 (gross) assembly group A (net)

15 15

146.9 150.3

TOTAL OCCUPANT LOAD LEVEL 2: 305.666

TOTAL OCCUPANT LOAD LEVEL 3: 297.222

URBAN FABRIC

ZONE 1 double height lobby

DUCT SYSTEM

ZONE 2 cafe, office, set shop

VAV BOX

ZONE 3 theater VENTS supply + return

VAV AIR CIRCULATION AND CONDITIONING SYSTEM for airflow and replacement throughout the building,; chosen for sizes of spaces and efficiency; ducts above ceilings in central circulation zones

ZONE 4 office, studio, back of house

MECHANICAL DESIGN AXONOMETRIC VIEW VAV Airflow System

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GRACIA, BARCELONA COMMUNITY CENTER Project Thesis, Spring 2023

As someone that appreciates the art of storytelling that designers are able to tell through themed entertainment architecture, I’ve always been drawn to the small details of design in this realm. One of my inspirations for why I chose to pursue architecture is Mary Blair, a pioneer in Disneyland’s architecture for being a female designer. She had a radical approach to concept art experimenting with color and using it for visual queues in the architectural realm of space making. This led me to want to include a lot of color in my project as a wayfinding and visual design technique, as it relates to things like memory, mood, and feeling of a space.

Each space was color coded on a scale of public to private, to make a collage of colors diagrammatically but also inside of the building with window and floor color accents. For example, workshop spaces are always blue, so a visitor knowing they are going to the third floor workshop space can follow the blue supergraphic from the stair and elevator all the way to the blue stained glass doors. The visitor can also see this room from the exterior as the blue seeps through shading elements.

With the inclusion of sliding doors and an organized layout, the spaces can become incredibly flexible to allow for air movement through the building and a shift of activities as the building grows. This provides the ability for visitors to circulate throughout the building with the opening of all sliding doors, while the community center can function for different programs in the future. The core and stair were strategically placed to allow for this flexibility, as they are floating in the middle of the larger part of the building.

The building has a relationship to the other plazas through every floor in balcony and exterior room conditions. The ground floor has setbacks on each entrance to allow visitors to wait to meet their group, skateboard through, or simply interact with the space as another room in each of the plazas. Balconies carved out onto every upper level are interacting both with the ground floor plazas and neighboring balconies. The balconies can be private with a closed wood louvered screen, only outside visitors seeing color on the windows seeping through the outside.

However, these balconies can become public with the opening of the wooden louvered screen, as visitors can interact with the neighbors, and plaza visitors can see movement inside of the color collaged window to draw them into the building.

Elevation - Siracusa Scale: 1/8” = 1’0”

URBAN FABRIC

North Facade

East Facade

West Facade

South Facade

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Section Perspective

URBAN FABRIC

Post-Modern Perspectives with Interior and Exterior Views

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CHARLESTON MASTERPLAN + CRUISE SHIP TERMINAL Pedestrian Experience + Resiliency through Native Ecosystems, Fall 2023

Taking inspiration from the outline of historic Charleston piers, the site builds upon them restoring the eco-historical piers and Atlantic coast. The resiliency builds throughout the site, having dense or less dense pockets of native ecosystems, as native plants contribute to the overall theme of restoring green space, managing stormwater, and presenting a pleasant space for pedestrians that will be resilient to coastal floods.

Similar themes are present in the Cruise Ship Terminal, connecting history through the Customs House, culture through Market Street, and ecosystems through the super-ramp building. For both passenger and public use, the roof brings the ground plane into the z-axis, carrying a unque experience with views of Charleston and the water. The interior of the building promotes a snake-like queue or walk through the flexible facility and public access spaces. The terminal accomplishes this through extruding the same patterns seen in the masterplan and adding screens throughout the curtain wall to lead people to the next view corridor.

URBAN FABRIC

Bay-Facing Facade

WOOD SCREEN ROOF TERRACOTTA EXTERIOR

WOOD EDGE CONDITION

C O N C R E T E 2 ’x 2’ C O L U M N

WOOD WINDOW MULLIONS

GLAZED GLASS CURTAIN WALL

ELEVATION DETAIL S C A LMateriality E : 1/8” =Section 1’ 0” Detailed

City Facing Perspective

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CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Section A

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2’ F L O O R S L A B

BATHROOM + STAIR CORE

URBAN FABRIC SECOND FLOOR PLAN S C A L E : 1/32” = 1’ 0”

SECTION DETAIL S C A L E : 1/8” = 1’ 0”

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER RESTAURANT

OBSERVATION TOWER THIRD FLOOR

Occupiable Roof Plan COFFEE RESTAURANT BAR/LOUNGE

BOARDING

SECOND FLOOR

BAG DROP TICKETING

Third Floor Plan

DOCK OPERATIONS

BAG CLAIM OFFICES GROUND FLOOR

Programmatic Diagram

TERMINAL PROGRAM DIAGRAM S C A L E : 1/64” = 1’ 0”

Second Floor Plan

THIRD FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

Circulation Diagram GROUND FLOOR PLAN S C A L E : 1/32” = 1’ 0”

TERMINAL CIRCULATION DIAGRAM S C A L E : 1/64” = 1’ 0”

First Floor Plan

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CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

SOUTH ELEVATION S C A L E : 1/16” = 1’ 0”

NORTH ELEVATION S C A L E : 1/32” = 1’ 0” CRUISE SHIP TERMINAL SECTION S C A L E : 1/32” = 1’ 0”

MIXED USE HOUSING + COMMERCIAL

CULTURE

ACTIVE RECREATION

PASSIVE RECREATION

EDUCATION CULTURE

ECO-HISTORICAL ISLAND

ROADS CONTINUOUS ON HISTORIC DRAINAGE PLAN

Exterior Perspective

GENTLE SLOPE TOWARDS WATERS EDGE PERMEABLE PAVERS

RESILIENCY DIAGRAM S C A L E : 1:200

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CRUISE SHIP TERMINAL

COASTAL ROCK BARRIER

RAINWATER GARDEN

NATIVE LIVE OAK +CREPE MYRTLE

NATIVE ASIAN STAR JASMINE GROUNDCOVER

NATIVE PALM TREE

Site Programmatic Diagram SITE PROGRAM DIAGRAM S C A L E : 1:200

URBAN FABRIC

ROADS CONTINUOUS ON HISTORIC DRAINAGE PLAN GENTLE SLOPE TOWARDS WATERS EDGE PERMEABLE PAVERS

COASTAL ROCK BARRIER

RAINWATER GARDEN

NATIVE LIVE OAK +CREPE MYRTLE

NATIVE ASIAN STAR JASMINE GROUNDCOVER

NATIVE PALM TREE

Resilient Design Site Plan

RESILIENCY DIAGRAM

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GRADUATE STUDENT HOUSING Project Statement, Fall 2024

Fostering individuality and promoting community living through intimate alleyways, this Columbus State University Graduate Student Housing project allows for a riverwalk accessible site and sustainable structural design through the use of CLT and GLT modular bays.

SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS

PUBLIC

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

storage

laundry coffee shop/lounge

leasing

retail

restrooms

laundry

leasing

cafe

classroom library

lobby

classroom

gym

lobby retail

restrooms

Push + Pull Off Structural Grid Concept

Public vs. Private Site Concept

storage

Program Concept

gym

Mechanical Routing Concept

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CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Ground Floor Plan

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SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS

4 1

25’

2

3

25’

1.1 1.2

2.1 2.2

3.1 3.2

4.1 4.2

5’

5’

5’

5’

3.2

2 1

A

4.2 4.1 5’

25’

3

4

25’

A

3.1 5’

25’

2.3 2.2 2.1 5’ 5’

B

1.3 1.2 1.1 5’ 5’

25’

15’

C

B

25’

35’

C D

2-Bedroom Unit

1-Bedroom Unit

Studio Unit

25’

35’

E D 15’

25’ 25’

H

F

E 25’ 25’

35’

I F

15’

G

J 25’

Accessible 2-Bedroom Unit

25’

G K 25’

L

Second + Third Floor Residential Plans

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CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Public Facing Facade

Alley Facing Facade

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SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS

4.2

4.1

3.1

1.2

2.2

3

3.1

4.1

1.1

3

4.2

2.1

2

1

Section A

G

F

E

D

C

B

Section B

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CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO FLASHING WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE 2”x6” WOOD BLOCKING SCUPPER

WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE ON SLOPE 4” RIGID INSULATION 5-PLY CLT

2” MULLION AND WINDOW FRAME DOUBLE PANED GLASS OPERABLE WINDOW FLASHING

VEGETATION 14”DEEP PLANTER

3/4” FINISHED FLOOR

THIRD T.O. F.F. 46’-0”

2” CONCRETE TOPPING

1 1/4 - 3/4” SLOPED FINISHED FLOOR

1 3/4” ACOUSTIC CUSHION

2” CONCRETE TOPPING

5-PLY CLT

1 3/4” ACOUSTIC CUSHION 5-PLY CLT METAL HOOK WIRE CHANNEL

SECOND T.O. F.F. 36’-0”

AIR DUCT DROP CEILING CAN LIGHTING

12”x 7” GLULAM BEAM 2”x 6” MULLION DOUBLE PANED GLASS PANEL

12”x 7” GLULAM COLUMN GLULAM CONNECTION TO SLAB

GROUND T.O. F.F. 22’-0” 2” RAISED FINISHED FLOOR CONCRETE FOUNDATION GRAVEL AGREGATE EARTH

Facade Section Detail

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EXTERIOR PAVERS DRAIN 25’ FOOTING

Facade Detail

CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

5-PLY CLT PANEL

Carbon Calculations for Environmental Impact

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT

1-BEDROOM APARTMENT

STUDIO APARTMENT

7-PLY CLT PANEL 2-BEDROOM APARTMENT

GLULAM BEAM 1-BEDROOM APARTMENT

GLULAM COLUMN

Structural Exploded Axon

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WOOD DESIGN COMPETITION Design Intent, Spring 2022

Cross-laminated timber is pushed to the limits in an experiential, organic design at Kreher Nature Preserve in Auburn, Alabama. Functioning as an event space, indoor classroom, office, and outdoor classroom, this is easily accessible from the visitor parking lot, directly connecting with a nearby trailhead. While structural panels of CLT are generally orthogonal in shape and design, here the CLT are biophilic designed curves. Inspired by the essence of Kreher Nature Preserve, the organic CLT forms undulate in and out of the circulation space.

The organic fins allow guests to meander in and out of the circulation space, choosing their final destination of classrooms, event space, or continuing to the trail. Upon first glance at the parking lot, visitors see through the apertures that shape a view of the lob- lolly pine forest.

Sustainability takes a top priority, as from construction to usage the project values lowering the carbon footprint and giving back to nature, especially with its location directly in the nature preserve. Alabama forestry has an abundance of pines that are locally sourced and made into cross-laminated structural members for this project. The CLT fins function as brise-soleils, especially on the southern sun side, to block the sun and better protect the conditioned space from solar heating. The conditioned classroom’s roof is a non-occupiable green roof, where rainwater is able to be collected through the permeable vegetation and rocks, then flowing down to the collection tank to power the toilets and sinks, offering visitors the educational opportunity to learn about sustainability.

CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Axon- wood comp progress 1 1’=.5”

Initial Concept Axonometric Drawing

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Wood Concept Model

drainage plant root barrier waterproof barrier insulation roofing membrane structural roof, DLT panels

lot, directly connecting with a nearby trailhead. While structural panels of CLT are generally orthogonal in shape and design, here the CLT are biophilic designed curves. Inspired by the essence of Kreher Nature Preserve, the organic CLT forms undulate in and out of the circulation space.

The organic fins allow guests to meander in and out of the circulation space, choosing their final destination of classrooms, event space, or continuing to the trail. Upon first glance at the parking lot, visitors see through the apertures that shape a view of the loblolly pine forest.

STEEL CABLES

SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS

STRUCTURAL RIB MEMBERS

cut CLT panels

Sustainability takes a top priority, as from construction to usage the project values lowering the carbon footprint and giving back to nature, especially with its location directly in the nature preserve. Alabama forestry has an abundance of pines that are locally sourced and made into cross-laminated structural members for this project. The CLT fins function as brise-soleils, especially on the southern sun side, to block the sun and better protect the conditioned space from solar heating. The conditioned classroom’s roof is a non-occupiable green roof, where rainwater is able to be collected through the permeable vegetation and rocks, then flowing down to the collection tank to power the toilets and sinks, offering visitors the educational opportunity to learn about sustainability.

rainwater collection tank

event space

ASSEMBLY

restrooms

aviary

walls, CLT panels insulation vapor barrier glass columns

conditioned classroom

STEEL CABLE RAILING

office

covered classroom

FOUNDATION & FLOORING strand board insulation vapor barrier laminated boarding

B

FLOORPLAN 1/8” = 1’0”

A

Floor Plan N

SITE PLAN 1/32” = 1’0”

EXPLODED AXON not to scale

structure diagram

massing diagram

interior

Section S E C T IA ON A 1/8” = 1’0”

Section SECTION B B 1/8” = 1’0”

exterior

interior & exterior diagram

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covered classroom CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

structure diagram

massing diagram

interior

exterior

interior & exterior diagram

circulation diagram

DIAGRAMS not to scale

Plan Concept Diagrams

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Final 6’x3’ Model

SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS caroline scalora

green roof (vegetation medium, drainage, plant root barrier) vapor barrier continuous rigid insulation roof decking insulation between structure structural framing & finish ceiling material

FLOOR ASSEMBLY

steel cables

insulation wall framing and structure continuous rigid insulation vapor barrier exterior finish material

WALL ASSEMBLY

finish wall material

ROOF ASSEMBLY

WOOD COMP A SSEMBLY

finish flooring subflooring insulation vapor barrier floor structure

Exploded Materiality Assembly Axonometric Diagram

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FREEDOM BY DESIGN AGRIVOLTAICS

H I G H WAY

Master Planning Exercise, 2020-2021

WETLAND

As an executive in Auburn University’s branch of Freedom by Design under the American Institute of Architecture Students, we were partnered with Little USA, a national solar company designing sustainable infrastructure.

Tasked with designing an electric-vehicle charging campus off a busy highway in rural Alabama, our Freedom by Design team was split into research sectors for the requested programs on the site. After personally researching vertical farming facilities and farm to table restaurants, the other team members and I combined efforts to have an immense program list including event space, ample parking, overnight lodging, farmers market space, agrivoltaic farming, and “edutainment” all on a site with a protected wetland area.

HOUSING R A I L R OA D T R AC K

WETLANDS

PUBLIC FA R M L A N D

KIOSK

CONNECTONS AND LAYOUT NTS

KIOSK CABINS

During the year of design and master planning exercises, our team went through many iterations of master planning to fill the environmentally rich site to both fit all the program pieces while allowing for 24 acres of agrivoltaic farming and protected wetland areas.

At the conclusion of the academic year, our team was able to present to the client and board of directors of Little USA so that they could choose a master plan to build for this nearby rural site. I am thrilled to see this project continue to take shape over the next few years as it comes to fruition.

CHARGING

TINY HOMES

RESTAURANT

FARMERS MARKET/ PAVIOLION EVENT CENTER

FARMLANDS WETLANDS

EV CHARGING STAION

FA R M L A N D

N EVENT CENTER MASTER PLAN 1/100” = 1’

VIEWS NTS

AI EXPLORATION ARCH 3800, A Seminar at Play, Fsll 2024

Within the class, A Seminar at Play, our professor provided materials to explore artificial intelligence (AI) through softwares including Midjourney and MeshyAI to then blend back into traditional architectural softwares.

In learning to utilize AI as a tool and a part of the ideating and conceptual process, it allowed for more fantastical creations of architecture to then edit for the purpose of this project. The beginning of the project began with a self-made collage that then was peer edited to add additional subject matter to the page. From there, the edited collage was brought into Midjourney to pull collage elements to make a “play space”. After hundreds of iterations, an image was pulled from Midjourney and edited to be made into a Rhino 3D object and mesh in MeshyAI. Finally, the object was brought into a combination of Rhino and Photoshop programs to construct the final play space.

Original Self-Made Collage

Peer Edited Collage

CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Midjourney Break From Collage Sampling

Midjourney Sculputural Form Sampling

Midjourney Fantastical Motif Sampling

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DIGITAL INVESTIGATIONS

Left: Final Edited Playspace Above: Final Rhino Mesh of Playspace

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DIGITAL + FILM PHOTOGRAPHY 2023

LIGHT BOX STUDY Design Intent, Spring 2021

As a preliminary design exercise in Foundations Studio, we were tasked with studying and hand rendering a precedent image. Specifically, we were to look at the light reflections and shadows on the different materials used in the architectural precedent.

After being given Tadao Ando’s Koshino House, the design process was to hand render the hallway image then extract intriguing moments of light and dark through figure ground studies. Those figure grounds transformed into abstract 2-dimensional paper models. Those 2-dimensional models were made into 3-dimensional light boxes, which then led to a void and shadow study for a final light box model. The final models include more or less thickness to the volumentric light boxes, producing moments of light and dark inside of the small spaces.

CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Left: Abstracted Hand Rendering and Figure Grounds Right:Corresponding 2-Dimensional Paper Models

44 LIGHT ANALYSIS CROPPED HAND RENDERING, FIGURE GROUND, DIGITAL HATCHING

ANALOG EXPLORATIONS

Process Set of Three Light Study Boxes

Finalized Volumetric Light Study Boxes

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DESIGN BUILD “PLACE FOR SITTING” Design Intent, Spring 2021

In the preliminary stages of the “Place for Sitting” project, we were tasked to study famous architectural benches or chairs. I was given the Chandigarh Caned Bench designed by Pierre Jeanneret, where I researched the methods of building the bench, especially the different types of joints.

Including a finger joint, (90º joint), and types of knot tying for the woven seat, I was to build a miniature scale model of the Chandigarh bench, pictured right.

After a study of the precedent bench, I created intriguing concepts of how wood and materials could be joined together to create a place for sitting. With a group of two peers, we combined our bench joineries to design a new type of place for sitting.

After the initial design, storyboards and exact drawings were produced to fully build the final place for sitting. After a day at Auburn University’s Rural Studio, the three of us constructed the bench to full scale.

ANALOG EXPLORATIONS

RIGHT VIEW

FRONT VIEW

TOP VIEW

Final Group Design of “Place for Sitting”, Personal Drawings

FINAL ORTHOGRAPHIC BENCH DRAWINGS SCALE: 1:1

PROCESS DRAWINGS FINAL EXPLODED ISOMETRIC: INDIVIDUAL JOINT SCALE: 1:1

Personal Designs of Joineries

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CAROLINE SCALORA | DESIGN PORTFOLIO

1. GATHER

2. CUT

4. DRILL

3. MARK

3’5.5” 8’

3.5” 7.5” 1’7”

1.5”

3’5.5”

1’9”

1.5”

5. SAW

3.5”

6. MARK

7. DADO

8. DADO

11. ASSEMBLE

12. SEW

.75”

.75” .75”

9. MARK

10. DRILL

STORYBOARD PROJECT 2 SCALE: 1’=3/4”

Construction Plan for Personally Designed Joints

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Final Group Place for Sitting Constructed at Auburn University’s Rural Studio

GRAPHITE RENDERINGS Spring + Fall 2021

Left: Chicago Inspired Terra Cotta Detail Above: Tadao Ando’s Koshino House