Emma Sweeten Architecture Portfolio 2020

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Emma B Sweeten

Architectural Portfolio 2020 EBSWEET@VT.EDU 856.298.6777

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Staunton Public Library

A public library situated in the city of Staunton, VA. A primary focus is composed of its relation to the street and its surroundings, how the building touches the ground, and entrance into space.

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The plan wraps the users into walls of books, nestles readers into the thick columns, and orients the visitors toward the views of the city, providing moments of enclosure and contemplation.

A deep cut marks the entrance to the bulding, blurring the lines between exterior and interior spaces. The structural brick creates a weight on the site which is counteracted by the low arches.

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The brick facade enforces the idea of mass. Pulling the screen of perforated brick up at the base of the building allows entrance, passage, and visibility.

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Large columns create an ordered facade, only broken to signify entrance. Their depth allows habitation between the members.

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Assembly

An easily constructed, multi-purpose space for traveling festivals and large scale activities. Focused on modular design in respect to expansion of a base unit.

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Elevated units allow for exhibition space beneath them. The rooms rise in height to give a sense of openness that becomes an interstitial space between the unconditioned center and the semi-enclosed, lower portion of the structure.

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The units are composed of a floating framing system. Each wall consists of metal studs with pre-drilled holes for the connection to the columns- heavy timber posts with extruded steel tubing. The corners become the connection between the wall and the ground, fixing the studs in place.

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Gallery

An exhibiton for local art placed on a pond of a college campus. Considered how light defines order within a space: a line, a path, a view.

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Perspectives (shown adjacent) capture the lighting conditions throughout the gallery. Each glimpse of light becomes visible as one steps around a wall, pulling them through the space.

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As a visitor enters the building, they fill the space left empty by the door, and fall in line with the building’s columns. The body in space becomes a column in space, both in presence and in shadow, creating a grid for the art on which to be displayed.

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Warehouse

A one week competition proposing a collaborative studio and design-build warehouse for faculty and students to use for projects. Focus centered on the contrast of being within a building and being around a building.

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Formation

Slip casted, drape-molded, and pressed clay pottery.

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Capture

Material and light.

A study abroad semester through the lens of photogrpahy.

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National Museum of Roman Art - Rapael Moneo

Brion Cemetery - Carlo Scarpa

Plaza de Espana - Aníbal González

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Triana Ceramic Museum - AF6

Museum of Comtemporary Art - Richard Meier

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Caixa Forum - Herzog and DeMeuron

La Tourette - Le Corbusier

Santuary of Arantzazu - Francisco Sรกenz de Oiza

La Tourette - Le Corbusier

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Sketch

Section, perspective, axon.

A study abroad semester through the lens of sketching.

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National Library of France - Dominique Perrault

Nemausus Housing - Jean Nouvel

La Tourette - Le Corbusier

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La Tourette - Le Corbusier

Santuary of Arantzazu - Francisco Javier Sรกenz de Oiza

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Beyeler Foundation - Renzo Piano

National Library of France - Dominique Perrault

Fondazione Querini Stampalia - Carlo Scarpa

Shelter for Roman Ruins - Peter Zumthor

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