Emily Potenza_Architecture Portfolio_2018-19

EMILY POTENZA 2018-2019

portfolio

Jefferson

Phildelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University

emily.potenza@jefferson.edu 215-941-9559

EDUCATION

SKILLS

JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University), Philadelphia, PA Bachelor of Architecture, Graduation: May 2021 GPA: 3.7 Dean’s List: Spring 2017 - Fall 2018

PROGRAMS:

ABILITIES:

Microsoft Office Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Rhinoceros 5 AutoCAD

Conceptualization Hand Drafting Time Management Customer Service

EXPERIENCE

LEADERSHIP

JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, PA. June 2017 – Present

Commuter Assistant • Plan events, individually and with three other CAs. • Organize an auction.

• Founded a mentor/mentee program within Commuter Life.

• Events Coordinator for The American Institute of Architecture Students Jefferson - Chapter, 2018-present • National Society of Leadership and Success, 2017-present • LEAD Program, Spring 2018 • Emerging Leaders Program, Spring 2017

JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, PA. June 2018

Orientation Leader • Welcome new students and their families to campus during the summer.

• Answer questions and guide students, utilizing customer service skills.

• Present during sessions on experience at Jefferson.

• Work with large groups and small groups of other Orientation Leaders.

PET VALU, Philadelphia, PA. June 2016 – August 2017

Sales Associate • Provide customer service to pet owners by selling products and giving helpful advice.

• Communicate with customers to help them to understand the health needs of their pets.

• Develop lasting relationships with customers that promote repeat business.

AWARDS • Jefferson C_ABE Glass Competition, 1st Place, Spring 2019 • Jefferson C_ABE 3rd Year Lighting Competition, 1st Place, Fall 2018 • Jefferson C_ABE Cabin Competition, Finalist, Fall 2017 • Jefferson Accepted Students Day Challenge, 2nd Place. Spring 2016

TABLE OF CONTENTS SCATTERED BRIDGE

A playscape located on the Wissahickon Creek in Blue Bell Park, Philadelphia.

LINKING LIVES

An alternative incarceration center located in Center City Philadelphia

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URBAN

Temporary focus on de Center City

BRINGING BACK THE FALLS A glass screeing wall for 4300-4326 Ridge Ave. located in East Falls, Philadelphia

FRAGMENTED SPACE

An education center for children focused on teaching about water conWsveration. Located in Blue Bell Park, Philadelphia

INSTRUMENTS

y playscape with a esigning light, located in y Philadelphia

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LINKING LIVES Linking Lives is an alternative incarceration center focused on the rehabilitation of those charged with repeat misdemeanor offenses. It is located in center city Philadelphia. The center takes in the countless dogs threatened by euthanasia in the Philadelphia area and has the charged persons train them to service the disabled or for basic obedience to then be adopted to the public. The center includes residential space for the charged persons and their paired canine with services, such as kitchen and dining, a gym, a game room, counseling, a doctor’s office, and a veterinarian. Integration between the community, charged persons, and the dogs lies within a dog park, dog daycare, dog grooming, and training classes for basic obedience and agility. The form comes the verb and noun “link�, which lead to defined programmatic spaces which link and overlap with each other. This created a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces which could be defined as public or private. Through Linking Lives, charged persons learn valuable life lessons that help them to be reintegrated into society, while also improving the lives of sheltered dogs and the surrounding community of center city, Philadelphia.

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SITE ANALYSIS

Terraces allow for immediate outdoor space for dogs.

A different grain of mesh is on each link and is chosen based off of the privacy of the program inside.

RESIDENTIAL VIEW

Each terrace includes greenery and materials such as grass for dogs. They can also act as dog runs.

Exposed stairwell for faster access through floors.

PRIVATE TRAINING FLOOR VIEW

Storage for training space to hold furniture and mock household objects. These are used to train the dogs on opening doors, turning on and off lights and bringing their owner something.

Dog run lowers in ground to avoid close contact with passing pedestrians.

Basement includes mechanical fixtures and extra storage

GROUND LEVEL VIEW

NORTH FACING SECTION - A

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Light filters through each mesh at different levels depending on private vs public space.

Indoor-outdoor space is provided by use of the mesh and glass walls for dogs in quarantine.

Flexible walls to create small to large training space.

Some outdoor spaces include a layer of mesh, protecting from natural elements.

Space where links intersect can serve as observational spaces for charged persons without being immersed.

Underground parking in available for employees and visitors.

WEST FACING SECTION - B

RESIDENT LINKS -DOUBLE ROOMS -OUTSIDE TERRACING -SECURITY AND CHECK IN LOCATED ON EACH FLOOR

BREAK SPACE LINKS THESE SPACES ARE ISOLATED SPACES. THEY ARE AVAILABLE FOR BOTH PERSONS AND DOGS FOR WHEN THERE NEEDS TO BE A SEPERATION BETWEEN OTHERS.

SERVICE LINKS -COUNCELING -DOCTOR -VETERINARIAN -DOG QUARANTINE -LIBRARY -GYM -KITCHEN/DINING -OFFICES -COMPUTER LAB -AUDITORIUM

COMMUNITY LINKS -PRIVATE TRAINING -OFFICES -PUBLIC TRAINING SPACE -DOG RUN/DOG PARK -GROOMING -DAYCARE -PET BOUTIQUE -DIY DOG WASH -LOBBY *Teal people are public persons.

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1) Lobby 2) Showroom 3) Dog Boutique 4) Grooming 5) DIY Dog Washing 6) Daycare Kennel 7) Cafe 8) Dog Park 9) Dog Run

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All of the agility obstacles teach dogs and owners to have fun, while also teaching confidence.

Storage

Tunnel - isolation

Teeter totter - balance

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Bars - jumping

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Table - patience

Dog run sloped down to avoid dogs from barking at pedestrians.

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Ground changes levels and consists of different surface materials to adjust dogs to new textures.

A -frame - height

Flexible space is designed so spaces can become smaller for private or smaller group lessons.

Ground slopes down towards sidewalks to avoid dogs on same level as pedestrians.

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

Weave poles - accuracy

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PUBLIC TRAINING FLOOR PLAN

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1) Library 2) Outdoor terrace 3) Dog break space 4) Occupant’s Break Space 5) Vet Clinic - Check in 6) Patient room 7) Vet’s Office 8) Quarantine 9) Running Space for quarantined dogs 10) Viewing space

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VET/LIBRARY/BREAK SPACE FLOOR PLAN

Security located by entrances and exits to check people in and out.

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Check up spaces for charged persons and their partned dog

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Laundry

See below

Each room has a cage and bed for the dog. Double rooms are for those training to service the disabled.

Quarantine space is convenient for when dogs come from shelters with kennel cough.

This also allows occupants to check in with their partnered dog.

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Frosted glass is placed on bedrooms to allow the light that is coming in from the exterior mesh facade.

RESIDENCE FLOOR PLAN

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1/32 scaled Study Model - 3D printed This form proved to create indoor/ outdoor spaces. Terraces were needed for the dogs, on all levels of the building. The form also created private spaces that were quick to access for both unstable dogs and humans.

1/16 scaled Main Model

1/4 scaled Detail of a Link

1/16 scaled Main Model

There are only two moments where a piece of the link may differ in width or size. When this happens the mesh wraps to hide this difference creating a breezway.

This model experimented with lighting and tranpareny of the mesh facade. Each link has a different mesh pattern corresponding to the program it holds inside. Some links repeat, as long as they do not touch.

The shadows casted by the model further highlight the variety of transparencies that each of the links have.

URBAN INSTRUMENTS

1st Place in C_ABE LIGHTING COMPETITION

A temporary lighting design located on the corner of 19th and Cherry Street in Philadelphia was created by a pair. The design relies on the sun to create an immersive experience where users play with light, shadow, and sound to develop an understanding of how music is created. Pedestrians and children from neighboring schools are attracted to the site, by a series of abstract objects protruding from the ground, which are soon discovered to be instruments. As the sun moves throughout the day and the seasons, it casts shadows at varying angles through the site; highlighting certain keys to be played, thus creating a song. The puzzle of shadow and light is ever-changing, and the users must work in unison to figure out the code. Between 3pm and 4pm, prime time for children to be dismissed from school, the shadows are aligned and provide a clear pattern of what to play. Artificial light is used to play the instruments when the sun is not present, and the users control the light as it plays the instruments. As familiarity of the systems becomes apparent to the users, a musical clock is created.

The surrounding area becomes accustomed to hearing certain songs at different parts of the day and the site becomes a grandfather clock.

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Day - Shadow + Night - Light

Song 1

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Song 2

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Time of Day Change

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Site Plan Sun Movement throughout the day

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Raised resting space for views

Pitch + Topography

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Volume 3:30pm

Harmony

Notes / Timbre Plan

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A Heliodon* was created to adjust the shadows and see how they would change over the year and the day.

*Heliodon - a device that represents the sun. This helps to represent shadows a model makes. It adjusts to month, time of day, and place on the earth.

03 SCATTERED BRIDGE Water is the primary attraction of this playscape. It allows, children and adults, the chance to experience a close interaction with the water that they wouldn’t normally have at the Wissahickon Creek. A story was created for a module of stones that come apart and are thrown across the creek. The ramp that leads the park goers down the steep hill represents a block breaking apart into strips. The stones are broken into modules and “thrown across” the creek to create an interactive bridge. Going from one point of access to five, the stones change orientation, vertically and horizontally, and become more chaotic as they reach the other side. Once they reach the shore of the other side of the creek, the platforms start to settle into and above the ground to create resting areas for parents and children. An ADA path is blended within the stones and includes glass planes to represent when one would jump over the water.

Break Apart

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Movement Across

Vertical Movement

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Section facing East

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BRINGING BACK THE FALLS

1st Place in C_ABE GLASS COMPETITION

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Two Hundred years ago there was the sound of rushing waterfalls emanating from East Falls, Philadelphia. This created the neighborhood’s namesake and these beautiful elements were what made the members of the community so proud. However, in order to gain a proper supply of drinking water, a dam was built, which submerged the falls. According to the stories, the falls provided exciting and beautiful sights for the residents and visitors. This proposal for a screening device, re-creates these sights and attractions with glass panels creating a falling water effect. To reference the strong engagement of the East Falls community, this wall is interactive. When viewers walk, drive, or ride by, they will notice the motion of falling water. This effect is created by three panes of glass, each casted into a particular shape and spaced with specific dimensions to accomplish this. At night the wall becomes even more engaging, by incorporating lights with sensors that respond to motion. Fiber optics are lit behind the glass and will re-create a falling water motion in response to those moving by or a wave of their hand. Halogen bulbs behind the glass shine through to the ground creating a water reflection and ripple when people walk on top of them. The rest of the wall includes rock formations and native plantings (such as crossvine – used by Native Americans) to further apply to the beloved landscaped community of East Falls and Kelly Drive.

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In motion - this will activate the effect.e effect RIDGE AVENUE

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LOBBY

OUTDOOR PARKING

An underwater effect shines on the ground in front of the wall, when lighting is placed behind the glass.

Senors in the lights react when people move by the walls, alowing the reflection on the ground to ripple.

Fiberoptics and twinkling LEDs are layered behind the glass panes where light travels through them in a waterfall motion.

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SITE PLAN

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Light senors are placed in the fiber optics and LEDs in order to react to the speed and motion of people aand cars passing. This achieves a falling water motion that works with the glass illusion.

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PATHWAY

NATIVE LANDSCAPE

This walkway is hortizontal to the wall to allow viewers to see the waterfall efect of the glass in motion.

Dogwoods, River Birch, and Magnolia trees are all native to the Philadelphia region and bloom beautiful colors in the Spring.

GREEN BUFFER

MODULAR SYSTEM

LIGHTING Fiber optics are used behind the glass panes at night to emphasize the vertical motion of falling water. Twinkling halogen bulbs shine to the ground showcasing the pattern the glass makes when light shines from behind.

MULTIPLE USES OF ROCKS

WHAT MAKES THE WAVES Two panes of glass with diagonal casting creates the falling motion of water.

A rock face is attached to a steel rod. This stone texture breaks up the glass “waterfall” for aesthetic purposes.

FLOATING GLASS The first layer of glass (water effect) is attached with small steel rods to the piece behind it. This allows the glass to stand freely with limited distraction to how it is connected.

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TRELLIS + CROSSVINE

ROCK FACE

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SEALANT A clear sealent is applied between the panels and their framing structure to attach them.

This steel trellis allows crossvine to grow and hang.

This plant is native to the NE area and was once used by native americans for medical purposes. It lasts all year turning a burgandy in the winter, and in the summer attracts humming birds and butterflies. Has low maintance and is not invasive.

Rocks are placed in front of the glass panels to block how the system is contructed. It also avoids damage from the ground level and they can provide seating.

LOWERED DOG PARK The ground level of the dog park is lowered by 3’ and sloped. Lowering the ground blocks views of pedestrains for the dogs, therefore to avoid barking and unwanted interaction.

Lighting twinkles behind the glass and a reflects onto forground.

Three different types of wall panels: trellis with crossvine, stone face on steel, and the glass effect.

FRAGMENTED SPACE This Educational Environmental Center is meant to serve the Philadelphia Urban community by providing a learning experience and respite for anyone visiting Blue Bell Park. Circulation, of a visitor walking through the park, was the inspiration for the building’s massing as it takes multiple rectangular shapes, representing a straight path, and rotated, to represent the changing of direction. This building strives to have people filter between interior and exterior space by creating roof overhangs and porch systems. There is roof access which acts as a playscape alternating between grass and concrete and includes slope changes. The slopes allow the roof to accomplish a passice system in the interior. Curtains of water are placed from the exterior to the interior to separate public spaces from private ones. Where the water is present, reflects where the roof is fragmented, allowing nature to come into the building. Flexible glass walls allow the cafÊ to flow inside to out.

Classrooms and exhibit space provide education on water conservation. An indoor/outdoor terracing leads users down a steep slope and to other features of the park. A water feature flows the whole length down the slope, + flows under the building and into shallow pools that children can interact with. The building eventually leads to a drop off slope and overhangs, looking out to views of the park + the creek.

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BLUE BELL PARK SITE ANALYSIS

KEY-LOCATIONS

Cityscape-Known

Naturescape-Unknown Accessibility Winter Winds Water Flow Noise

Initial Experience + Circulation through park

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Parking Pavilions-Project 1

Circulation turned to massing

Existing Pavilion

Views

Class Playscape Trail

Playscapes-Project 2

Softball Field

Massing is cut where building turns

Education Center Site

Existing Trails

Creek

Sun Path

The roof is sloped to allow access for children + includes alternating heights.

Summer Winds

SITE PLAN The roof is then split and fragmented to let light + air into the interior.

Lobby Hall to Offices

Exhibit

Cafe

Terracing Classrooms

Storage

SECTION PERSPECTIVE

GATHERING 1.Lobby/Entry 2.Cafe 3.Amphitheater LEARNING 4.Classrooms 5.Exhibit EXPERIENTIAL 6.Terracing

FLOOR PLAN

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PRIVATE 7.Bathroom(s) 8.Offices 9.Conference Room 10.Storage 11.Mechanical

Plantings are placed on a railing on the roof to help blend nature with manmade.

Nature + water is present inside the building when the roof splits open to let light + air in.

Water is directed through channels on the roof flowing in the direction of the slope.

The Ampitheater seating creates a ledge along the pathways + waterways next to the entrance.

Outdoor walkways offer covered outdoor circulation.

Shallow pools allow children to walk through water.

A trench is created next to building to create a pathway of water children can follow to the bottom of the slope .

SECTION PERSPECTIVE OF EXHIBIT

BIOGRAPHY

Contact Information emily.potenza@jefferson.edu 1023 Old Huntingdon Pike, Huntingdon Valley, PA, 19006 215-941-9559

Emily Potenza is a 3rd year Bachelor of Architecture Student enrolled in Jefferson University: Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University’s School of Design. She originally entered as an Interior Design major but has been drawn towards Architecture and was re-accepted into the five-year architecture program.

Besides having a passion for designing spaces, she also has interests in psychology, sustainability, physics, and theatre. Having attended high school at the Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush as a theatre major, Emily developed a fascination for psychology as well as social issues. Emily was also an avid science student in high school where she took an elective in Environmental Science and won an award for her performance in AP Physics. Her experience with these classes has ignited a desire in her to design and create with solutions in mind.

Emily has had success in classes at Jefferson and is supported by her professors to pursue her future in Architecture. Emily’s most recent design project was Linking Lives. The concept and research done was the strongest focus in this project. This led to an outstanding project with well-done architectural moves, despite the limited time to work on them. A supervising attorney from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office was a critic of the project and promoted its achievement because of successful precedents that also use dogs to help rehabilitate the incarcerated. Along with this project, Urban Instruments was a partner project between Emily and her peer, Olivia Birritteri. This pop-up lighting designed project was a week long where the group of two ended up with first prize in a competition held by the College of Architecture at Jefferson.

Emily continued this persistance in the College’s annual Glass Competition, where her project, Bringing Back the Falls, was awarded first place by a panel of architects and developers.

Emily now looks forward to incorporating her varied interests and aptitudes into working towards a degree and eventually a career in Architecture. She looks forward to serving her community by creating spaces that satisfy a variety of needs while addressing climate change, sustainability, mental health, and enhancing quality of life. Her ultimate goal is to learn how to create not just buildings that serve these purposes, but spaces that are also beautiful.