GRACE WASYLUK (919) 614 - 6624 wasylukgrace@gmail.com gewasylu@ncsu.edu
EDUCATION 2016 - 2020 Cardinal Gibbons High School Raleigh, NC GPA: 3.9
2020 - 2024 NC State University BEDA Bachelors in Environmental Design & Architecture Landscape Architecture Minor GPA: 3.6
PROJECTS STUDIO Spring 2023 01. The Hive at Sandy Creek Park Profs. Askey & Harris
Fall 2022 02. Moore Square Community Commons Prof. Glueck
A research lab built on the recovering landscape of what once was a landfill and sewage filtration plant.
Using masonry as a vessel for education, self-sufficiency, and community.
I focused on creating a habitat that unifies human and wildlife experience while also strengthening the pollinator population of Sandy Creek Park.
I focused on using form to create hubs for activity, learning, and the meshing of neighborhoods in downtown Raleigh.
Fall 2022 04. Moore Square Bicycle Pavilion Prof. Glueck Design proposal for a bicycle storage pavilion and bike repair shop that connects Raleigh's hub for transportation to its diverse community. I focused on utilizing masonry's physical applications to generate a space for movement.
Spring 2022 05. The Grove Canopy Sanctuary Prof. Leonard
Fall 2023 03. The Vršovice Connection Profs. Kovačevič & Gebrian An information hub within on the edge of two Prague neighborhoods; a park creating knowledge, learning, and collaboration. We focused on modifying a wall to create a park that connects people, and architecture that brings people together
Spring 2022 06. Woven Meditiation Center Prof. Leonard
Utilizing earth as a material to create space for gathering, meditation, and individual worship.
An exploration of material and the individual's connection to a metropolitan context.
I focused on designing movement through the landscape to maximize wind flow in a hot and humid climate.
I focused on ritualistic movement through space, and studied classical church and thermal bath typology to create a nondenominational center for personal worship.
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Project Name: The Hive at Sandy Creek Park Location: Durham, NC Typology: Research Lab Professors: Billy Askey & Edwin Harris Year: 2023 Area: 7,000 sq. ft.
THE HIVE AT SANDY CREEK PARK In the center of an ecosystem regrowing from collapse sits The Hive. To properly avoid harming the landscape further, it lifts from the ground, finding itself placed between the two main bodies of water at Sandy Creek Park. It interrupts the pedestrian path, and creates a relationship between humanity and its ecology. To further the connection between creatures, and assist the park in its regrowth, the research lab will focus on the health and longevity of local pollinators, more specifically, bees. On the second level, apiaries, visual to the public and accessible for the bees, line the west wall. Bees will be provided with a safe environment to nest and the extending landscape will be theirs to pollinate. The building directly assists Sandy Creek Park in its regrowth, and eventually the earth as a whole. Additionally, honey produced by these bees is stored and sold on the honeycomb shelf along the stair. Form is devised from the pedestrian path and two directed views over the water. It is broken, as the landscape is, and then reconnected by the second level, as is the environment by assisting the pollinator population. Wood is used as the main material because of its natural insulating factor for beehives.
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Project Name: Moore Square Community Commons Location: Downtown Raleigh, NC Typology: Community Center Professor: Jamey Glueck Year: 2022 Area: 24,000 sq. ft.
MOORE SQUARE COMMUNITY COMMONS The Moore Square Community Commons is a space focused on gathering, education, and food resiliency. Due to the growing population and the rise in poverty across metropolitan areas, it's necessary to devise solutions for these communities in need. How can we bring together a range of peoples and bridge the gap between diverse communities? Moore Square Community Commons uses architecture as a vehicle for education in cooking, gardening, and cultivating life and self-sufficiency. Concrete masonry is divided into three main vessels that contain the most important spaces for the growth of the community. The southern-most form contains a plant nursery and community garden as well as a library and reading room to be filled with educational culinary and gardening books. The north-western vessel contains a multipurpose room intended for gathering and community building. Finally, the north-eastern vessel holds classrooms, learning kitchens, and fitness space. These three masonry blocks are held together by a glass membrane that is surrounded by fins used to direct movement through and around the space.
iterating responses to site placement through form
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LEVEL THREE LIBRARY & READING ROOM 1 FITNESS ROOM 2 LOCKER ROOM 3
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LEVEL TWO MULTIPURPOSE ROOM 1 PLANT NURSERY 2 BALCONY 3 COMMERCIAL TRAINING KITCHEN 4 KITCHEN CLASSROOM 5 PANTRY 6 TOILET ROOM 7
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LEVEL ONE COFFEE SHOP & BAKERY 1 GROUP MEETING SPACE 2 CONFERENCE ROOM 3 INDIVIDUAL WORKSPACE 4 DIRECTOR S OFFICE 5 WORK ROOM 6 CLASSROOM 7 TRAINING COORDINATION OFFICE 8 OPEN OFFICE 9 COMPUTER LAB 10 RESTROOM 11 MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT ROOM 12 COMMUNICATION ROOM 13 ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT ROOM 14 MULTIPURPOSE STORAGE 15
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library & reading room
view from multipurpose room
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balcony & community garden
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Project Name: The Vršovice Connection
Year: 2023
Location: Vinohrady, Prague, Czechia
Area: 5,000 sq. ft.
Typology: Culture & Information Center
Collaborator: Shane Fogarty
Professors: Igor Kovačevič & Adam Gebrian
THE VR OVICE CONNECTION The Vršovice Connection is the relationship between two growing communities within the residential sector of Prague. My collaborator Shane and I, upon discovering Bezručovy sady, envisioned creating a vibrant link, weaving through the heart of Prague's burgeoning residential neighborhoods. It becomes a transformative embrace of community within the very fabric of Bezručovy sady; where the once static park wall now breathing with undulating loops, beckoning entry and moments of pause. Our design process began when we recognized the stark disconnect imposed by the south edge wall of the park, separating Prague 10 and Prague 2. The Vršovice Connection is a reimagining of a retaining wall, pushing back the land, creating more street access, improving walking paths, and inviting residents and visitors to seamlessly traverse through the park and beyond. Inside The Vršovice Connection visitors will find themselves immersed in a dynamic hub of culture and information designed to welcome visitors into the heart of Prague 10 and Prague 2. The interior space seamlessly integrates with "Start Vršovice", a community organization across the street, creating a harmonious link that transcends physical boundaries. "Start Vršovice" acts as a community garden that caters to Prague 10 residents, but closes during colder months. The Vršovice Connection takes the role of "Start Vršovice" during winter months, not merely as a replacement, but as an inclusive sanctuary inviting residents from Prague 2 and beyond to join the community fold. Inside, a dedicated lecture hall, information area, and space for collaboration, casual meetings, personal work, and plants from "Start Vršovice" seamlessly converge.
CAMP architectural center
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collaborative seating area & indoor garden
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seating area facing the road
collaborative seating area
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Project Name: Moore Square Bicycle Pavilion Location: Downtown Raleigh, NC Typology: Public Storage & Recreational Space Professor: Jamey Glueck Year: 2022 Area: 3,000 sq. ft.
MOORE SQUARE BICYCLE PAVILION Located in the hub of transportation and community of Downtown Raleigh, Moore Square Bicycle Pavilion provides a new means for fast-paced movement and connection to the greater Raleigh area. Concrete masonry is used as a vessel for direction, durability, and moments for pause. Increasing thickness of walls begins to show hierarchy of space and intended paths for cyclists and pedestrians. In beginning to iterate the formal organization of the bicycle pavilion, I considered ease of movement for both pedestrians and cyclists. I began with a network of vertical planes that dictate movement, storage, and interior space to house the bike repair shop. Next came the horizontal form, the roof. I intended to allow light through the roof in some areas while being opaque in others. Light and shadow would be used as a material to direct traffic through the pavilion.
iterating form and path in drawing and physical form
iterating form vertically and horizontally using massive planes as organization
pavilion as central vessel between Moore Square and the bus station
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roof as vehicle for lighting and direction
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Project Name: The Grove Canopy Sanctuary Location: Raleigh, NC Typology: Meditation & Worship Center Professor: Jeremy Leonard Year: 2022 Area: 3,000 sq. ft.
THE GROVE CANOPY SANCTUARY Designing a meditation center in a hot and humid climate on a steep landscape, my focus was to harness the wind while creating multiple destination sanctuary spaces that exist along the path of the sanctuary. I used separate forms to divide the three spaces devised to complete the meditation center: entry, gathering, and reverence. Using the natural curvature of the landscape, I created a path that would take in this wind and move it through the space to work with the climate. Upon entering The Grove Canopy Sanctuary, one will find a circular earth form lifted from the ground. This form is intended to be walked upon, creating the curvature of the path that extends from the path that's engraved into the earth. Leaving this form and beginning to promenade, one can either continue the path to the next circular form, gather, or enter one of the personal meditation chapels that is carved into the earth. These rooms consist of a small thermal bath and an oculus to receive light. The gathering space steps into the earth, allowing room for community building, and is surrounded by a ring of water. The following path consists of more personal meditation rooms, and then brings the user to the final ring, reverence. This form holds the largest thermal bath, and is used for group worship and meditation.
entry iterating form within the rings: entry, gathering, reverence.
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iterating individual chapels with thermal baths
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section through series of chapels
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Project Name: Woven Location: Downtown Raleigh, NC Typology: Meditation & Worship Center Professor: Jeremy Leonard Year: 2022 Area: 3,000 sq. ft.
WOVEN In the heart of downtown Raleigh, where cultures, religions, and beliefs are meshing and evolving at rapid rates, its integral to preserve and strengthen these totems of our community. Inclusivity is the channel for growth; transparency eases comfort in spaces with vast difference. Woven is a non-denominational meditation and worship center. It's main spaces consist of gathering, solitude, and reverence. Built with woven and carved wooden planks, the space is filled with filtered and playful movements of light. The second story contains the gathering space, seen in typical religious buildings for connection within the congregation. Here, it unifies a different demographic, once divided by class, race, gender, and ethnicity, now brought together without judgement or classification. The wood splits and allows for an exterior garden surrounded by individual chapels for personal meditiation or worship. In the center of this garden is a thermal bath embedded into the earth. One must descend into the space of reverence, and is met with a single beam of light coming through the oculus in the ceiling.
documenting home age on Raleigh's main axis
median household income
population density
residential and mixed use program
river and flood zones
gentrification, displacement, and abandonment
woven and carved study model
iterating difference between woven, solid, and open space.
second level
eastern approach
first level
interior garden
below ground level
chapels
central path
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elevation
section perspective
final model
SELECTED
WORKS
hand drawing - fall 2023
hand drawing - fall 2023
hand drawing - fall 2021
inflatable architecture - spring 2021