Emilio Craddock | B. Arch Portfolio

Design Portfolio

Emilio Craddock

828 Oak Street Chattanooga, TN emilio.craddock@gmail.com 423-290-7801

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Suburban Agricultural Community

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Gutter Wall & Now You See It

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Nature School

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Book Bunker | Arctic Design Group

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Neighborhood Living | Thesis Studio

with Christian Kochuba

About Me

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Selected Work

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Professional Work

Born in Torino, Italy, I moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee when I was 6 months old. In Chattanooga I fell in love with nature and the outdoors. In my designs, I strive to think of how the natural environment is affected and how knowledge of the surrounding ecosystems can enlighten my design.

Any intervention, no matter how small, can have a positive effect on our planet. I like to imagine that one day, my designs and ideas can be that positive intervention, and over time they will amount to a meaningful change.

Education University of Virginia School of Architecture | Charlottesville, VA

2012-2016

Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Landscape Architecture Minor Dean’s List Clark Construction Scholarship Recipient

Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences | Chattanooga, TN

2000-2012

Class of 2010, GPA: 4.0

Work Experience River Street Architecture | Chattanooga, TN

Summer 2015

As a design intern I worked in Revit, AutoCAD and SketchUP to develop architectural drawings and renders.

New Blue Construction Company | Chattanooga, TN

Summer 2014

Worked hands on with the company on the demolition and remodeling of historic houses and apartments.

Hefferlin + Kronenberg Architects | Chattanooga, TN

Summer 2012

Worked in Sketch Up and Auto Cad to develop drawings for the Urban Design Challenge Broad Jump Team. The Broad Jump team received the Civic Vision Award.

Skills Computer

- AutoCAD + Revit - Rhinoceros 3D Modeling - Google SketchUp 3D Modeling - Adobe Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign - GIS - Grasshopper - VRay Render + Maxwell Render

Hands On

- Modelmaking - Hand Sketching - Lasercutting - CNC Routing - 3D Printing - KUKA Robotics

Suburban Agricultural Community (RE)THINKING (SUB)URBIA An urban housing development along Route 29 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Two housing types, a single family duplex and an eight story apartment building are divided by community gardens tended to by the inhabitants of the buildings. The southern half of the site leaves room for an existing Whole Foods and a farmers market, where food from the community gardens can be sold.

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Circulation Road

Pedestrian Paths

Water Collection

Buildings

Duplex Plan & Section

Apartment Plan & Section

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Design Driven Manufacturing Gutter Wall & Now You See It with Christian Kochuba

These projects are the outcomes of a semester's research into Design Driven Manufacturing. After a series of process and material tests, we generated a bending and scoring pattern and applied them to aluminum strips cut using a plasma cutter. These strips can be aggregated in countless ways producing a variety of systems. Our first is a new take on a gutter system and the second is a possibility for a structural facade system.

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Now You See It: Self supportng wall allows varring amounts of diffuse light through depending on time of day.

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Deflection tests prefromed using Karamba.

Gutter Wall: Replaces a standard gutter and creates a wall that directs water depending on strip aggregation, additionally allowing water to percolate into the ground rather than become runoff.

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View through wall varies as the onlooker moves past the wall. This allows views into the building in some areas, but not in others.

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The Gutter Wall is pre-assembled off site with the desired flow pattern and is then mounted on the wall in panels.

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The water flowing off the Gutter Wall is collected in a bioretention pond and is allowed to filter slowly into the aquifer or is used as irrigation.

There was an emphisis on material testing and construction, here are examples of large scale mock-ups that were made throughout the semester using aluminum.

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Nature School An Architecture School in New York City A new architecture school situated in Chinatown, New York City. The design aims to create maximum opportunity for students, teachers and visitors to access the outdoors by creating porches and other exterior spaces throughout the height of the building. The facade and building form is also shaped to allow light to penetrate through all the floors while allowing viewers on the exterior glimpses of what the activity within.

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Outdoor patios and porches allow students and faculty constant proximity to the natural light and the exterior environment.

Primary Circulation

Secondary Circulation

The circulation stairs create voids in the floor plates to allow light to penetrate through then entire building.

Ground Floor

Third Floor

Lounge Space

Review Space

Sixth Floor

Ninth Floor

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Book Bunker | Arctic Design Group An Addition to the Longyearbyen Public Library This semester I traveled to Longyearbyen (78° North) the northernmost town on Svalbard, an island north of Norway.

This project is a design for an addition to the Longyearbyen Public Library, an underused public space with a huge potential to be transformed into the center of Longyearbyen. The addition imagines how the protective shell of an arctic building can be designed to create usable and occupiable space.

The building’s form also creates micro-climates inside and on the exterior of the building that accumulate, deflect, reflect environmental elements such a snow, wind and sunlight.

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N Existing Lompensenteret Library Addition

Library Addition Studies

Prevailing Wind

Longyearbyen Town-center

Circulation

Auditorium

Office

Outdoor

Entrance

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Media

Meeting

Children

Stacks

First Floor

Second Floor

Third Floor

Diagram studies of various wall and floor conditions for increasing wall thickness while creating usable and occupiable space.

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A thick wall section protects from the extreme exterior environment while creating a range of other spaces on the interior.

The exterior form allows for interaction between the environment and the occupiable spaces, creating spaces with a range of accesability to the outside.

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Section Perspective Looking South

Interior Light

Wind Flow

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Neighborhood Living | Thesis Studio Living Small in an Urban Community Beginning in the 1980’s, Chattanooga’s urban renewal caused a steady rise in the cost of living in the downtown area. Today, only the most affluent portion of the population can afford to live downtown. Most homes are large single family houses and deluxe condos. This housing typology creates social + demographical issues, excluding a large group of Chattanoogans. By redeveloping the alleys and vacant lots in the Southside, and re-thinking the purpose of the garage, new opportunities for millennials emerge.

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Major Dividing Factors Interstate Tennessee River

Westside

Downtown

Population: 1,800 Median Household Income: $9,000 Recent Development: New high end waterfront condos Historical Use: Predominantly black public housing projects, aluminum plant, abandoned smelting and scrap metal industry Lot types: Public housing isolated and compact, most other area is either industrial or abandoned, no planned open spaces.

Opportunity: Large abandoned lots, solutions to social issues caused by public housing separation, larger scale intervention, agricultural implementations.

Population: 2,000 Median Household Income: $30,000 Recent Development: More pedestrian and bicycle friendly, waterfront renovation and river walk, high end housing construction Historical Use: City center and industry on waterfront Lot types: Taller commercial buildings, few mixed use. New luxury single family townhouses. A number of small parks, no large open areas Opportunity: Re-imagined parking lots, smaller vacant lots in-between larger structures, an alternative to expensive luxury apartments.

University & Fort Wood

Southside

Population: 3,100 Median Household Income: $40,000 (No Students) Recent Development: University Expansion and increase in student housing Historical Use: University buildings and historical neighborhoods Lot types: University of Tennessee and surrounding neighborhoods. Fort Wood is a historic neighborhood with houses dating to the late 1800s.

Opportunity: Alternative for college dorms and high rent, the tiny studio apartment, in fill empty abandoned parking lots with multi-unit buildings on single lots

Population: 2,100 Median Household Income: $20,000 Recent Development: Main Street revitalization, Community markets, single family houses and condos Historical Use: Fabrication and distributing plants, lower class neighborhoods Lot types: Smaller family homes, some townhouse type homes, young progressive around main street, lower income further from main street. 2 Farmers markets. Small empty lots available for infill.

Opportunity: Influx of young people, smaller lots, proximity to new restaurants and shops, multiple small unit communities

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Upper Old Homes: 80K New Homes: 200-250K

SOUTHSIDE EXISTING BUILDING OLD HOMES

Central Old Homes: 150K New Homes: 250K

NEW HOMES AVAILABLE PLOTS PARK INDUSTRY ALLEY CONNECTIONS

Lower Old Homes: 100K New Homes: 250-300K

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Wall Storage

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Diagonal stairs to shorten run while maintaining tread depth

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Storage under stairs

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Think of the porch and garden as another room

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Hang kitchen supplies such as pans and other items for the ceiling

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Folding Table that folds onto wall

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Sliding table stored in counter-top

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Skylight

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Open floor plan

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Movable partition to vary space use

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Use window openings to reflect light

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Back light to make the space feel larger

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Open spaces in walls to create continuous space

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Moveable Walls

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Furniture that can be moved or stored with the wall itself

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Slight level changes to create extra storage space

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Floating islands to allow small spaces to feel more open

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Above: A unit for a gardener. Allowing plants to be grown in front, vertically and on the roof of the home. The interior uses a thickened wall on one edge allowing all appliances and furniture to be stored within the wall.

Left: A view of a revitalized alleyway. The infill of empty lots and replacement of garages creates a sense of community along the alley. These new buildings are homes and workplaces where inhabitants can pursue hobbies and job interests and passers-by can interact.

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Selected Work 36

VRAY Renders

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Concrete Little Library

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Hand Drawings

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Renders of the Barcelona Pavilion using Rhino and VRAY.

A design for a little library that explored the properties of ductile concrete and casting.

Explorations of landscape architecture projects.

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Shelf allows for interior storage, flower pots on the side and a “green roof� on top

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Form-work exploded axon.

Two routed foam pieces formed the curved flower pots on either side.

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Katsura Rikvu

Plate from Batty Langley’s “New Principles of Gardening”

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Study of MVVA’s Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City

Path

Play Area

Sand Box

Rock Planting Soil

16 feet

32 feet

10 feet

Plant Barrier

Gravel Footing

Fill Existing Subgrade

Shrubs

Bamboo

Rubber Play Surface

Concrete Wall

Sand

Bamboo

Drains to Edge

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Professional Work Cambridge Square Subdivision

Created plans and facade renders for pamphlets advertising a new subdivision.

Honors Golf Course Teaching Shed

Worked on design and schematic drawings for a new teaching shed.

40' - 4"

4' - 11"

10' - 0"

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3' - 0"

21' - 9"

OPENING IN WALL FOR BAR COUNTER - 42" GARAGE DOOR ABOVE COVERED PORCH BAR STOOLS LIGHT SWITCH WITH DIMMER

7' - 0" 4' - 0"

VIDEO CAMERA MOUNTED BELOW BAR

STORAGE SHELVES

8' - 10"

30" HIGH COUNTER TOP

5' - 0"

4' - 0"

VIDEO CAMERA MOUNTED ABOVE

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2' - 0"

1' - 5"

ELEC. PANEL

CLUB REPAIR 42" HIGH COUNTER TOP

WALL MOUNTED T.V. - COORDINATE EXACT HEIGHT & LOCATION WITH OWNER - TYP OF 2 LOCATIONS VIDEO CAMERA ON MOUNTING BRACKET ABOVE COORDINATE EXACT HEIGHT & LOCATION WITH OWNER - TYP. OF 6 LOCATIONS

VIDEO CAMERA MOUNTED ABOVE

SYNTHETIC TURF CARPET - COORDINATE WITH OWNER

VIDEO CAMERA MOUNTED ABOVE

VIDEO CAMERA MOUNTED ABOVE ROOF LINE ABOVE

3' - 0"

12' - 1"

0' - 11"

11' - 9"

SYNTHETIC TURF CARPET - COORDINATE WITH OWNER

20' - 11"

DUPLEX ELEC. OUTLET - TYP.

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1' - 5"

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2' - 2 3/4"

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3' - 10 1/2" 40' - 4"

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