[outdated] Gillian Marsh | Waterloo Architecture Portfolio | Spring 2023

GILL IAN MAR SH GILL IAN MAR SH

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO SPRING 2023

Hello!

My name is Gillian Marsh, I am a 2nd year student at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. I am looking for a 4-month co-op work position for the Fall 2023 term at an architecture firm. I am an enthusiastic, creative, organized worker with strong technical skills in various drafting and visual softwares. In my architectural career, I want to focus on environmental and sustainable design that maintains the beauty and aesthetics of great architecture.

As a student I strive to learn and experience a broad range of building types and architecture practices. I believe prioritizing sustainability is absolutely key in today’s climate crisis and believe a focus on each of these topics is critical.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my portfolio!

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CURRICULUM VITAE

G illian M arsh

Toronto, ON 1 647 588 6979 gflmarsh@uwaterloo.ca

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficiency in Autocad, Rhinoceros 7, Enscape, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign to create full set of design set.

• Understanding of contract management.

• Firsthand experience of residential design details and handling various machinery and equipment.

• Ambitious, enthusiastic and versatile architecture student with an interests in sustainability and conservation.

EDUCATION

Sept 2021April 2026

Aug 2017June 2021

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Candidate for Bachelor of Architectural Studies

• Honours Co-op Program.

• Excellent academic standing.

B ILL CROTHERS SECONDARY SCHOOL

• Participation in hockey and slow pitch teams, as well as the Waterloo Math Contest (grades 10-12) and the BCSS French Club.

INTERESTS

• Travel

• Hockey

• Music

• Guitar

• Literature

WORK EXPERIENCE SKILLS/ASSETS

Jan 2023April 2023

FIA INTERIORS & ARCHITECTURE

Architecture Intern

• Composed full construction and permit drawing sets in Autocad.

• Completed contract admin tasks.

• Participated in site visits to construction site.

• Created digital and physical sample boards

• Ontario G drivers license

• Basic French language skills

• Basic CPR training

Software

• Autocad

• Rhino 7

• Enscape

May 2022Aug 2022

REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF YORK

Operations Support Clerk

• Supported space planning and accommodations for hybrid work arrangements in various York Region offices.

• Basic Revit

• Basic Grasshopper

• Basic Sketchup

• Adobe Illustrator

• Adobe Photoshop

June 2021Sept 2021

STURGEON BAY PROVINCIAL PARK

Cashier and Maintenance Worker

• Lived on site for duration of job.

• Worked at the front gate and maintained campground.

• Adobe Indesign

• Various Microsoft apps

OTHER EXPERIENCE

• Learn to Skate Instructor

April 2020Aug 2022

COTTAGE RENOVATION

Labourer

• Demolished and rebuilt the back room of a relative’s cottage at Stag Island, ON.

• Built a two level deck from 130 year old church wood and rebuilt interior/exterior walls.

• Gained experience with carpentry tools such as; table saws, chop saws, circular saws, nail guns, and sanders.

• Volunteer Hockey Coach

• Sheridan Nurseries Cashier

• Snow Shoveling

COMMUTER HUB LIBRARY

Type: LIBRARY

Time: April 2022

Software: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

Course: Arch 193 Design Studio

Advisor: Isabel Ochoa, Sifei Mo

Project completed alone.

Located in Corktown, Toronto, the Commuter Hub Library is a key destination for people commuting to and from work. This public building is a union between a traditional library, bike repair and commuter centre. The Commuter Hub promotes sustainable transit - is located next to TTC street car lines, Bike Share Toronto stations, and prioritizes bikers.

As a building designed for the everyday commuter, this library includes bathrooms, showers, a cafe, and a bike parking garage - all on the first floor. The remaining programs can be reached with a completely accessible ramp that wraps around the floors.

The exterior landscaping involves car parking, exterior bike racks, and a ramp that leads to the underground bike parking garage as well as the original bike path that is under the street.

The Commuter Hub Library is the perfect place to repair a bike, study, and even shower.

FORM FOLLOWS RAMP

The Commuter Hub Library is accessible to all demographics. The parti is a ramp that encircles all of the building’s programs. This creates a public building that is entirely accessible to everyonefrom bikes, to strollers and wheelchairs.

The floors shift and align to the ramp to prevent or create privacy without the use of walls. The Commuter Hub is open to all demographics - the commuter facilities are also open to the homeless population, so visibility is key.

VITRUVIAN BIKE

The facade detail is based on a ‘vitruvian bike’ in which the vertical fin arrangement is based on the proportions of a standard bike.

The fin depth varies for each side of the building, changing for different orientations to maximize passive heating and diffuse lighting. The spaces between vertical fins are filled to depending on the program of each floor and sun exposure.

FACADE DIAGRAM

The sloped site is excavated to create an underground bike parking garage that is accesible from the site’s existing bike path. This floor contains a sheltered sitting area, bike parking and a ramp that maintains the building’s form parti.

The programs were determined based on need and accessibility. Bike repair is prioritized in this library, and is therefore on the 3rd floor whereas the media and stufy spaces on the the top floor.

3F PLAN (3.1, 3.2)

4F PLAN (2.1, 2.2, 2.3)

FRAGMENT SECTION / ELEVATION

PHYSICAL MODEL SOUTHWEST ELEVATION

MONTMORENCY FOOTBRIDGE

Type: BRIDGE

Time: April 2022

Software: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

Course: Arch 173 Building Construction 2 Instructor: Terri Boake

Project completed in collaboration with Kyra Hiltz.

Located on a scenic foot trail in Quebec, the Montmorency Footbridge mimics the form of a White Ash tree native to Quebec. It is an arch compression bridge made up of concrete footings, stainless steel structural members, and a steel deck finished with a wood deck. Safety is ensured with a stainless steel railing with glass inserts held by stainless steel doc and pin fasteners. The steel connections are held together by pin connections, hidden inside the structural members for an elegant, clean finish.

STAINLESS STEEL MAIN STRUCTURAL MEMBER

GUSSET WASHERS

CLEVIS PIN

CAP

STAINLESS STEEL SECONDARY STRUCTURAL MEMBERS

CLEVIS

Connections between the steel main and secondary members are hidden inside the main structural member to create an elegant finish.

DETAIL AA

STAINLESS STEEL RAILING

STAINLESS STEEL DOC AND PIN FITTING

GLASS

DETAIL BB

STEEL DECK

CONCRETE FOOTINGS

STAINLESS STEEL STRUCTURAL MEMBERS

STAINLESS STEEL RAILING WITH GLASS INSERTS

GALT CO-OPERATIVE HOUSING

Type: SUPPORTIVE HOUSING

Time: December 2022

Software: Rhino, Enscape, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

Course: Arch 292 Design Studio

Advisor: Sam Eby

Project completed alone.

The Galt Co-operative Housing fosters diverse relationships through the sharing of food, culture, and a program that creates opportunity and growth for the occupants and surrounding public. The co-op houses a reciprocal program that exchanges volunteer work in the community kitchen, daycare, and various other tasks for language classes and job training.

Located on the ground and second floors, you can find a community kitchen, teaching kitchen, international grocery store, and classrooms that are all designed to combat isolation and alienation. The co-op also features a fabrication space, lending library, gym, multi-faith room, party room, a rooftop garden, and rainwater and solar systems to minimize environmental impact.

To provide affordable housing, GCH offers various unit types as well as a spectrum of unit furnishings. Occupants are given the opportunity and agency to design their space for their particular needs, as well as simply rent and live in a pre-designed unit. In addition, each unit is provides the space to expand the number of people housed.

Hosted at GCH, the Reciprocal Exchange Program is a great way for occupants to easily work, learn and grow. Inspired by Trampoline House located in Copenhagen, occupants are given the opportunity to receive job training and language classes in exchange for community services - all in one building! With the various programs available, occupants can exchange work at the community kitchen, teaching kitchen, and fabrication space for classes.

The form of the GCH follows growth. Apartment units were devised to include the extra space for the growth of another bedroom, while also maintaining living space. Each 1B, 2B, 3B and 4B unit were then updated to align with each other while also accounting for light wells and balconies. This layout was then used to create the footprint of ground floors. Finally, this layout was placed onto the site in Galt, which includes a change in typography. This created a another entrance from the second floor that opens to Wellington St S.

CONTEXT AXONOMETRIC

Each residential floor contains a shared common space that contains an engaging and different program on each. There are Reciprocal Exchange

Another feature of the GCH is that it is designed with exclusively barrier free bathrooms. All bathrooms - within units, the 1525mm barrier

RESIDENTIAL FLOOR PLAN

are programs such as a fitness centre, prayer room, library, and fabrication space. Each of these programs are related to the Exchange Program.

shared bathroom on each floor, and throughout the publicly accessible ground floors - were designed with an unobstructed barrier free radius.

With the use of light wells between each unit, every unit has at least two window walls, and every bedroom has a least one window. This is to create a strong quality light and therefore living within each unit. All units also have access to a shared balcony, encouraging neighborly encounters.

These unit diagrams display the potential held within each unit at the GCH. In the progression of the units shown from top units available with two levels of furnishings, one so that users have the agency to design the space for their particular needs. component is ingrained into every unit’s layout, in which all units have the space for an additional bedroom - as shown

1B UNFURNISHED

2B UNFURNISHED

1B GROWTH

2B GROWTH

2B FURNISHED

1B FURNISHED

top to bottom, there are two main design components shown; adaptive space and growth potential. Adaptive space involves needs. The other type provides full furnishings so residents are able to easily and quickly adapt into their unit. The second design shown as a dotted room, or a partition above. This is so families or groups are capable of growing within their units.

3B UNFURNISHED

4B UNFURNISHED

3B GROWTH

4B GROWTH

3B FURNISHED

4B FURNISHED

BALCONY SHADING DIAGRAM

The GCH design involves a strong focus on passive design. Light wells are integrated throughout the building between each unit to improve quality of light throughout each space. Every unit has at least two window walls, and every bedroom has at least one window. The south facing glazing and balconies are proportioned to each other in order to maximize heat gain from the sun during the winter months, and shading in summer months. In addition to operable windows, various strategies were put in place to maximize passive heating and cooling throughout the GCH.

GCH design also involves active systems. There is rainwater and solar energy collection located on the roof, and an allocated storage space on the ground floor to process and store rainwater and energy. To save on water and energy consumption, units contain only one bathroom, with a shared bathroom on each residential floor. In addition, laundry facilities are not contained within each unit, instead there is a set of shared washer and dryers on each residential floor.

IMPOSING FOOTBRIDGE

Type: BRIDGE

Time: January 2022

Software: Rhino, Enscape, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

Course: Arch 193 Design Studio

Advisor: Jaliya Fonseka, David Correa

Project completed alone.

Sitting on the Bruce Trail beside beautiful Sherman Falls, the Imposing Footbridge is its own experience in and of itself. Instead attempting to blend with the surrounding nature, this footbridge is a blatantly manmade structure within the forest. The parti was created with a focus on the experience of the bridge. As a person hikes the path, the Imposing Bridge appears as a small speck of grey. In contrast, a hiker sees small flashes of the forest when as the cross the bridge.

The structure uses (non-mirrored) stainless steel panels to be bird friendly, and has space between panels to relieve wind load.

The interior fragments were arranged so all panels would have a direct connection to the HSS.

1 Stainless Steel

2 8 x 9 cm Welded HSS

3 Mirrored Stainless Steel

4 8 x 10 cm HSS

5 12 x 2.6 cm Wood Planks

6 Foundation/Ramp

7 20 x 20 cm I-beams

8 5 x 3 cm Wood Railing

OTHER WORKS

OFF GRID HOUSING GREENHOUSE RENDER

LIBRARY RAMP RENDER

OFF GRID HOUSING KITCHEN RENDER