Grace Gallagher's Architecture Portfolio

G R A C E

G A L L A G H E R

S e l e c t e d W o r k s

University of Florida SOA

University of Michigan Taubman College

2019 - 2023

G R A C E G A L L A G H E R

MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE

STUDENT

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OBJECTIVE

Creative architecture graduate and student with international experience seeking knowledge and experience with a top-rated design firm I am specifically interested in building an educational foundation to pioneer next-generation urban planning and cityscapes

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

- Revit - Rhino & Plug-ins

- SketchUP

- Adobe Creative Suite

- Microsoft Office Suite

- Grasshopper

- AutoCAD

- Lumion

- Enscape - V-Ray - Drafting

- Model Building

- Hand Rendering

PERSONAL SKILLS

- Creative Vision

- Can-Do Attitude

- Team Player

- Highly Organized

- Strong Time Management

- Effective Verbal and Written

Communication

- Customer Service and Sales

Experience

EDUCATION

TAUBMAN COLLEGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Master of Architecture | 2022-2024

Cumulative GPA: 3 95

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Bachelor of Design, Architecture | 2018 - 2022

Cumulative GPA: 3 79

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA VICENZA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE

Vicenza, Italy | Spring 2022

SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN SUMMER SEMINAR

College Prep On-Site Design Immersion | Summer 2017

EXPERIENCE

ARCHITECTURAL SUMMER INTERN

Eppstein Uhen Architects, Milwaukee, WI | Summer 2021 & Summer 2022

Member of the Living Environments studio Coordinated with the design and production team on various projects, all in different stages of design: schematic design, design development, and construction documents including student housing, senior living, and luxury apartment projects

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA TEACHING ASSISTANT

Design 4 Architecture Studio | Spring 2021

Responsible for the development and support of admission into the University of Florida's Upper Division School of Architecture by observing and evaluating student performance, and enhancing student learning by providing feedback and innovative solutions

WALT DISNEY WORLD

Merchandise and Slide Operations | 2016 - 2020

Developed world class guest service and sales skills, while being responsible for the safety of guests and fellow cast members Trained in emergency life-saving operations

INVOLVEMENT

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS

AIAS Member | Fall 2020 - Present

Exposed to resources to advance my leadership, design, and service skills Leveraging a strong and diverse network of fellow students, alumni, local, and national architecture firms

KAPPA DELTA SORORITY

Beta Pi chapter at the University of Florida | Fall 2019 - Present

Achieved leadership, personal development, academic success, and community service skills Active leader in fundraising for our national philanthropies: Girl Scouts and Prevent Child Abuse America

DANCE MARATHON AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Dancer and Volunteer | Fall 2019 - Spring 2020

Coordinated fundraising and awareness for the children at UF Health Shands Children's Hospital, the local Children's Miracle Network Hospital

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA DEAN'S LIST

Achieved a GPA of 3 70 | Fall 2018 - Spring 2022

ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS

Taubman College at the University of Michigan Merit-Based Scholarship | 2022 - 2024

Awarded the Ray Goodgame Outstanding Student Leader Award | 2018 Florida Bright Futures Medallion Scholarship | 2018 - 2022

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AN ENVIRONMENTAL PROVING GROUND FOR ARTISTS

Cedar Key, Florida // 01 - 06

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DISPLACEMENT: SIX FEET UNDER

Georgetown, Washington, D.C. // 07 - 12 0 3 0 4

CITIES ALIVE: THE GREEN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT

LANDSCAPE CHARRETTE

Paynes Prairie Reserve, Gainesville, Florida // 21 - 24

DOOR WINDOW STAIR

Penn District, New York City, New York // 14 - 20 0 5

A Study of Threshold and Sensual Experience // 25 - 28

RUINS

Georgetown, Washington, D.C. // 29 - 32 0 6 0 7

UNTAMED DWELLINGS: LIVING IN THE URBAN WILD

Jefferson Chalmers, Detroit, Michigan // 33 - 36 0 8

FIRM WORK: MUSE

FIRM WORK: HALES CORNER SITE STUDY

Eppstein Uhen Architects, Milwaukee, Wisconsin // 39 - 40

Eppstein Uhen Architects, Milwaukee, Wisconsin // 37 - 38 0 9

An Environmental Proving Ground for Artists is a study framed by climate change, environmental dialogues, and architecture’s responsiveness. This project looks carefully and deeply at Florida’s intricate landscape: specifically the Gulf Coast of Florida where rising sea levels and changing climate are rapidly transforming the life and the landscape.

I gained inspiration for this project by using the St. Pete Pier, Atlantic Studio, Storm King Climate Change artist Jenny Kendler’s Birdwatching project, and Charlie Hailey’s “The Porch.” As one views this project, the most predominant drivers to keep in mind are the idea of direct gaze, reflection, reciprocal act, and harmony within a larger ecosystem.

The intent of this project was to create a remodeled, multi-purpose pier off of one of Cedar Key’s most populated areas, Dock Street. The remodeled pier is home to five different art studios for native and visiting artists; a studio for theater, dance, painting, music, and photography. These studios rely off of one another and the surrounding environment to enhance each space and the experience for the guests. It is accessible by both land and water, and offers great spots for fishing, listening to live music, as well as an up close and personal interaction with the natural landscape.

Site: Cedar Key, Florida

Professor: Charlie Hailey

University of Florida

Fall 2020 | Design 5

Painting and Music Studio Vignette looking North-East

Painting Studio Vignette

Porch

Dance Studio

Vignette looking South

North South Section through Pier looking East

Bridge Relationship Vignette

Theater Operable Roof Photography Studio Lower Pier

Porch / Pier Entrance

Dance Studio

Boat Dock

Painting Studio Music Studio

Lower Pier

Theater Photography Studio

Exterior Vignette of Embassy

Situated along the Potomac River off the Georgetown Coast in Washington, D.C sits a floating embassy for unrepresented island nations facing displacement due to a rise in ocean sea levels and coastal erosion. Additionally, these nations are impoverished and cannot afford to have an embassy in the US Capital.

As sea levels continue to rise across the globe, the Georgetown coast of Washington D.C. happens to be one of the cities most vulnerable areas to flooding and is expected to be underwater in the coming decades. Taking all of these factors into consideration, I’ve designed an embassy and ambassadors residence that adapt to changing flood levels by floating and being mobile.

The buildings sit on a series of barges; historically known to be able to carry large amounts of heavy cargo, and travel through rivers. The embassy and residence are both designed to be shared between two unrepresented island nations; sharing office and amenity space, yet respecting the privacy quarters of each ambassador.

This project aims to represent the unrepresented, address issues of climate change and rising sea levels, and most importantly respect the natural landscape it sits on and the culture of each of the nations that will inhabit it.

Site: Washington D.C.

Professor: Steven Mankouche

University of Michigan

Fall 2022 | Institutions Studio

Embassy Ambassador’s Residence Barge #1 Barge #2

Site Plan

Shared Embassy (Public Level)

Chancellery

Cafe

Exhibition Space

Shared Embassy (Private Level)

Confrence

Rooms

Office Space

Exhibition Space Overlook

Floorplan 1

Ambassador’s Residence (Shared Level)

Private Boat Dock

Meeting Rooms

Outdoor Terrace

Floorplan 2

Private Apartment #1

Private Apartment #2

Floating Bridges

Floorplan 3

The Ambassador’s residence on the site sits to the right of the Embassy, and is designed to be home to two Island Nation’s Ambassadors. The first floor is home to both outdoor and indoor shared amenity and meeting space, while the second floor is home to two private apartments; each which include a bedroom, office, kitchen, and living area.

The Embassy, also designed for two island nations, is home to three floors of program, each which are intricately designed to be shared between the two island nations. The first floor is accessible and open to the public, while the second and third floors are more private and used solely for private business purposes and endeavors of the specific nation inhabiting it.

Residence Vignette

Embassy Vignette

Isometric Section

Perspective of Through Block, Bridge Connection,

With the dire need for a new, renovated, and more efficient transportation hub to be implemented into New York City’s Penn district, my partner and I were immediately drawn to the lack of residential, public space, and greenery in the area. Our proposal, The Green Urban Infrastructure Project aims to change the current trajectory of the district from a run down, unsafe transportation hub to one that creates a destination; a place that prioritizes Well-Being, Air Quality, Biodiversity, and Placemaking. In order to accomplish this, we are proposing to change 30th street (from Broadway to the Hudson River) to a pedestrian only Green Street, retrofit numerous sites along 30th street to residential buildings, and most predominantly-- reconstruct the block directly south of Penn Station.

This block will be home to a 87-story hotel, affordable housing, and luxury condominium Tower, Through block park connecting 30th street to Penn Station, and a 17-story shared workspace, culinary, and small-scale commercial facility. Our proposal will revitalize the Penn district area and create civic spaces through the implementation of green infrastructure while keeping intimacy, human scale, and quality of life in mind.

Site: Penn District, New York City, New York

Partner: Alexia Gomez

Professor: Nancy Clark

University of Florida

Fall 2021 | Design 7

and Hotel Lobby Facade

Green Street (30th St)

Residential

Hotel

Double-Layered Facade

Through Block &

After a deep analysis of the current green space, parks, urban walls, and privately owned public spaces throughout Manhattan, or rather lack there of, we were able to gather information and formulate a proposal for the Green Urban Infrastructure we included in our project. New York City is one of the globes busiest and most populated cities. Due to this, it is also one of the world’s most polluted and low air quality cities. The more we place a priority on Green Urban Infrastructure, the more likely our cities are to be here for the next generation, and most importantly the healthier those inhabiting it will be.

Fifth Avenue’s mappings reveal a relationship between green space and urban porosity. Lined with pockets of urban stages and parks, the contrast between solid and void is apparent. These drawings attempt to speak to the different conditions present along fifth avenue. The lower cross streets that intersect Fifth Avenue south of Central Park create concentrated urban density. As Fifth Avenue extends upward, Central Park reveals the west side of this urban wall. This drawing diagrams the positioning, relationship, and variance of parks and urban walls as they spread along Fifth Avenue.

Fifth Avenue Parks , Green Space, and Urban Porosity

Bioremediation

Pocket Parks

Functional Plants

Parklets

Functional Plants

Cooling Fountains

City Gardens

Sustainable Urban Drainage

Green Street Instrastructure Ariel Diagram

Top Ariel of Green Street and Block Redesign

Collaboration with Valeria Malave)

L A N D S C A P E C H A R R E T T E

This Landscape Charrette studies the Florida landscape and how ground, horizon, local climate and environmental conditions affect a specific site and the interventions it possesses. The intention of this project is to create a site that is delicate in it’s environment and has the ability to observe, without intervening heavily or altering the natural landscape.

This quaint camp is embedded on the edge of a broken dyke branching off of La Chua trail located at Payne’s Prairie. It consists of two separate structures that make up the entirety of the camp; one for the sites visitors, and a private space catered specifically to the local hydrologist to study the movement and management of water throughout the prairie, along with some of his other hobbies such as stargazing, birdwatching, cooking, and kayaking. And most predominantly of all- he is a coffee connoisseur. The structure’s light framework and and use of thin, layered, transparent materials allows for the hydrologist and visitors to feel connected to the landscape whether they are inside of the structures themselves, walking on the outdoor boardwalk, or kayaking. If you’re a visitor, the site is only accessible by kayak. However, if you’re the hydrologist, you are the only individual at the camp who has direct foot access to the prairie itself. The camp was designed in this fashion with the intention that the prairie be left unharmed and honored in all of its glory.

Site: Paynes Prairie Reserve, Gainesville, Florida

Professor: Charlie Hailey

University of Florida

Fall 2020 | Design 5

Hydrologist Space Section

Visitor Space Section

Landscape Charrette Section

Landscape Charrette Site Plan

Door Window Stair is an embodiment of an advanced idea of threshold, circulation, scale, and the power of sensual experience. This project describes a deeper purpose of all of these items beyond their titles and the understanding we have of them on a surface level. Doors, windows, and stairs are thresholds between interactions; they offer a way of circulation beyond our eyes. A way for us to uses our senses to interact with others without physically seeing each other.

Whether this be in a vertical or horizontal manner, threshold creates a moment in between moments; it is a space allowing not only an individual being or animal to travel, but their sense of sight, touch, sound, and scent to travel as well.

Threshold has no limits; its potential is boundless. This project documents the idea of threshold and sensual experience through model and a series of drawings studying the relationship between man and elephant; two creatures of entirely different scale.

Professor: William Zajac

University of Florida

Fall 2019 | Design 3

Model Photo Addressing Threshold

Door Window Stair Model

Conceptual Section

R U I N S

Ruins is a study of intervention on a pre-existing site, in this case, the famous Rialto Bridge located in Venice, Italy. The project embodies the value of history, light, and most specifically how something of age can work with something new. Venice has an extremely rich history; known for its famous canals, detailed bridges, gondolas, and eighteenth century carnivals, it was the perfect site for a conceptual project of this capacity.

This project prioritizes the idea of masking, sensual experience, veil, and how light can define architeecture. Masking stems from the city’s historic carnivals, and the study of light stems from the reflection of the massive network of canals in the city. Light defines a space, and it is extremely affected by its surrounding environment.

This project is a study of veiling, masking, sensual experience, and how light can play a role in architecture- whether it be historic, or brand new.

Site: Rialto Bridge, Venice, Italy

Professor: William Zajac

University of Florida

Fall 2019 | Design 3

Facade Light Study

Venetian Well Light Study

Conceptual Sectional Collage

Situated in one of Detroit’s most historic neighborhoods, Jefferson Chalmer’s, Untamed Dwellings is a housing project that aims to address both the interior conditions reflecting the life of the local inhabitants, and the exterior conditions reflecting the values of the local community, surrounding landscapes, urban wildlife, and vulnerable flooding conditions of the site.

Working in a group of three, we are proposing a mid-rise housing project that is split between three sites in the central part of the neighborhood’s urban fabric. Each of these sites, varying in size, will address a different housing need of the neighborhood while respecting the culture of the local residents and their historic landscape. The smallest site being home to a shared housing typology that is largely collective space, the medium site being home to a housing typology that is mostly private space, and the large site being home to a site that is a combination of the two.

Additionally, we will be considering this housing project as home to two additional residents; those of which are native species to the Detroit area; the white pine tree, and the honey bee.

Disclaimer: In Progress

Site: Jefferson Chalmers, Detroit, Michigan

Professor: Craig Borum and Claudia Wigger

University of Michigan

Winter 2023 | Collectives Studio

Conceptual Model Photos (In Collaboration with Jillian Armstrong and

Non-Human Species: Bees

Non-Human Species: White Pine Tree

Large Site: 5 Lots

Non-Human Species: Bees

Non-Human Species: White Pine Tree

Small Site: 1 Lot

Non-Human Species: White Pine Tree

Non-Human Species: Bees

Medium Site: 3 Lots

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Site Massing Diagram

Site Massing Diagram

F I R M W O R K S A M P L E : M U S E

During my second internship as an Architectural Intern at Eppstein Uhen Architects, I amongst eighteen other interns across all markets and offices across the United States were tasked with a creating a 24 hour intern charrette that addresses the recent change in the way we work, communicate with one another, and simply live as human beings due to COVID-19 and the rise in virtual meetings.

We created Muse; an immersive and inspiring space that creates an equitable experience using physical and virtual strategies. Muse is intended to be a dome-shaped structure that acts as a meeting space to bridge the gap between individuals who are meeting in person, and those who are meeting virtually. The faces of the virtual members will be projected onto the dome walls, allowed for a more immersive and robust meeting environment.

The diagram to the right is a conceptual representation of Muse, and an idea of how one may begin to imagine a portable, dome-like structure in which individuals are connected to those who are not physically with them in a realistic setting. Muse could be the solution to creating a more efficient and realistic way of working in the modern world.

Firm: Eppstein Uhen Architects

Office Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Summer 2022

Site Analysis Diagrams (In Collaboration with Eppstein

Hales Corner is a residential village located on the southwest side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Working in the Living Environments studio during my second internship at Eppstein Uhen Architects, under the advisement of various designers on the Hales Corner team, I was tasked with conducting a graphic analysis of the site’s existing conditions, environmental conditions, topography and views, and most importantly potential opportunities.

The goal of this particular site analysis study was to create a graphic representation that strayed away from the typical representational methods used to show these conditions. By creating a series of sketch-style mappings, it allowed for myself and the design team to get more personal grasp of the site we were working with and the potential opportunities for the site in the future.

Site: Hales Corner, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Firm: Eppstein Uhen Architects

Office Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Summer 2022

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