elise lagraize architecture portfolio

lagraize architecture portfolio

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE, FRENCH MINOR

Louisiana State University / Baton Rouge, LA

Summa Cum Laude

RITTER MAHER ARCHITECTS

Intern Architect

-Drafted construction documents for commercial architectural drawing sets.

-Partnered with associate architects to develop schematic design concepts for client presentations.

-Participated in site visits to collect measurements for the creation of digital 3D models.

PAUL J. ALLAIN, ARCHITECT

Intern Architect

-Drafted plan drawings and presented them for review by senior architects.

-Produced, refined, and adjusted digital models using SketchUp software.

-Provided recommendations for minor adjustments on working construction document sets.

Friends of French Award for Outstanding 2nd Year in French Literature

LSU Department of French Studies

new orleans museum of natural sciences

Located in the heart of New Orleans’ Warehouse District, this museum is a center for education and appreciation of the natural sciences. The museum’s design is comprised of angled masses that offset each other and gradually increase in scale. A copper skin wraps around the facade to unify the differing masses and consists of undulating panels that alternate between solid and perforated. The exterior skin of the museum serves as a science lesson in itself, as the copper panels develop a patina over time.

Fall 2021

Instructor: Tara Street

section a

c section b

structural precedent studies

These precedent studies focused on modeling existing buildings and their structure using Revit families. I studied lateral forces, load paths, and tributary widths within the structure. I then created diagrams analyzing these structural forces.

Summer 2023

Instructor: Kris Palagi

kimbell art museum / renzo piano

This study of Renzo Piano’s Kimbell Art Museum analyzes the forces acting on the building’s photovoltaic roof. Lateral force strategies are identified in each plane of the building, and the load path diagram studies the force and load path of a person servicing the photovoltaic panels.

deadload:130lb/sf 216’

6,000 sf

neue nationalgalerie / mies van der rohe

780 k

y-plane/momentconnection

zplane/sheardiaphragm

30’

x-plane / moment connection

lateralloaddiagram

loadpathdiagram

This study of Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin analyzes the building’s prefabricated steel roof and the forces acting upon it.

candela park and stadium

Candela Park and Stadium Renovation commemorates architect Hilario Candela and his impressive Miami Marine Stadium through the path of storytelling. The program design of Candela Park anticipates the engagement of Miami locals and calls upon the history of the site and its past uses. The Cuban heritage of Candela is celebrated by incorporating the angular lines that make Miami Marine Stadium iconographic to Cuban Americans into the forms of the site and renovations.

Spring 2023

In collaboration with Sophia

Instructor: Traci Birch

Ferrara

miami-dade county critical habitats miami 1% chance annual flooding miami historic districts

National Historic District

Local Historic District

Miami Neighborhoods LEGEND

mezzanine floor plan

original stadium

seating removed

addition to existing structure

new stadium

conceptual diagram

co-housing

Shotgun houses have great significance to New Orleans culture and community. The goal of this project is to create housing for two different families while maintaining levels of privacy and community between the two.

The top two floors of this building are offset from the ground floor to represent the distinction between the individual who lives on the first floor and the family that lives above.

A screen brings natural light into the home while also creating a barrier between the home and the street. A wrapping technique is employed around the exterior of the house which creates the sense of an inner building being pulled out of its outer shell.

Fall 2020

Instructor: Sergio Padilla

axonometric section

west elevation

courtyard perspective

east elevation

louisiana state university library and learning commons

This is a library and learning commons that houses both quiet and active spaces which are united by a central courtyard. The courtyard serves to unify members of the LSU community and bring sunlight and nature into the building. Green wall systems, balconies, and planter boxes throughout the building serve to engage users with nature and promote well-being. A green roof system reduces impervious surfaces and aids in stormwater absorption.

Spring 2022

Instructor: Sergio Padilla

paris

Drawings from Fall semester of Fourth Year in Paris. I studied hand drawing and perspective sketching on site and had the privilege to field sketch famous buildings that I learned about in my first year of architecture. I conducted site sections throughout the city of Paris and layered them with hand drawn vignettes. I studied assembly and connection details through precedent studies.

Studio coursework involved performing weekend-long charrettes, which resulted in simple interventions on current programs in Paris.

Fall 2022

Instructors: Kristopher Palagi and Tara Street

charrette

barcelona pavilion precedent study paris axes section

This precedent study analyzed the column system in Mies Van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion. Axonometric volume and detail drawings were drafted to investigate how the construction of the columns and their ordering throughout a strict grid system affects user experience within the pavilion.

This mini project analyzed famous monuments in Paris that are connected by an axis line. Site sections were conducted along the axis to show the difference in elevation and scale of each of the monuments.

weekend-long charrette

This charrette involved reimagining the current bouquiniste stands, which are small book stores that live along either side of the Seine River. New opening mechanisms and connection details were considered in order to allow for better viewing of the river when the store is functioning. Small windows were added to give better understanding of what the box encases when the store is closed up.

site sections along the seine river

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