2025 Undergrad Selected Works Portfolio by Emma Wiebe

EMMA WIEBE

Education

Texas A&M University | Environmental Design

University Degli Studi Firenze | School of Architecture

Experience

CAD Drafter | Haven Home Design

Feb 2024 - Present

Draw floor, roof, foundation, electrical, and HVAC plans as well as elevations for clients

Officer | Freedom By Design | AIAS Subcommittee 2022 - Present

Plan and spearhead projects to that serve my school and community

Staff Editor| The Highlander Yearbook | HPHS 2017 - 2020

Design and organize spreads for an award winning, nationally recognized yearbook

CarScend

CarScend | Floor

Newman House

Newman House | Plans & Renders

01 CarScend

ARCH 205 Robert Warden

Fall 2022

Workflow

AutoCAD

Rhino

Lumion & Enscape

With the future of transportation slowly becoming more electric, we have asked ourselves how a rest stop would function in the future with all electric chargeable cars. Rest areas today are initially modeled after roadside parks with minimal comforts, while following a uniform design that rarely provides more than the basic amenities such as restrooms and walking areas. To gain a better understanding, our team pictured ourselves during a long drive, low on battery, and in need of a restroom, food, and a change of scenery. Through further research and development we created CarScend, an EV or (Electric Vehicle) charging rest stop that transcends the idea of an average rest stop with its sunken community design. I designed the restaurant for CarScend.

Similarly found with in my daydream

The blurred reflections on shallow water

Juxtaposing the concrete’s jarring scream

Must have come directly from the author

A place made for ridged relaxation

Where one cannot fully let go from life

A place made for ones direct fixation

On digesting their own eternal strife

I wanted to be one but I was not Spectating without ever being more

I wanted credit but I was just naught

Nothing around everything I adore

Sadness and jealousy came as I left

What could or should have been was effed

02 Newman House

ARCH 206 Robert Warden

Spring 2023

Workflow

AutoCAD

Rhino & Revit

Enscape Photoshop

We were instructed to design a house based on an artist’s style and processes. I choose Barnett Newman as my artist because of his painting’s false simplicity. Located in Montecito, California, a city that intertwines Santa Barbra, this house fights mud and land slides with a raised foundation on stilts, retaining wall, and a terrace garden. Throughout the house, vertical wood panels physically distinguish different spaces without creating a visual barrier. The common spaces lack identity. Circulation flows between the interior and exterior without recognition. The spaces extent into one another creating dimension and purpose without identity. These are similar attributes Newman discovered within his paintings.

03 Gallery

Study Abroad Studio Fall 2023

Workflow

AutoCAD

Rhino

Enscape

Adobe Illustrator

Located along the Arno River in Florence, Italy, my group partner and I designed an art gallery. The building entrance has forced perspective caused by the vast freestanding brise soleil facade and tight entryway. The gallery was designed around modular blocks creating rhythm and symmetry. The main hallway compresses the circulation with low ceilings and a narrow room. As one enters the exhibition space, their view expands across the river. The cantilevered balcony could remain open to the public but also be accessible by gallery visitors.