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GRETA A. DUBOIS | 2019-2024 | PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | ACADEMIC ARCHITECTURE

PROJECTS | DESIGN PROJECTS

GRETA DUBOIS

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER GRAPHIC ARTIST

Contact: gretaannedubois@gmail.com 360.947.0123 https://www.linkedin.com/in/gretaad/

strive to use building design as a medium to achieve positive social and environmental change and inspire connection and joy to the world around us. For the last few years I’ve focused on designing and constructing affordable housing in Seattle with the goal of making our city more equitable and inclusive. My education is in Architectural Design with a minor in Urban Design and Planning, and value creating spaces that are beautiful and aligned to natural cycles that actively contribute to a broader urban context. seek to build my career around forward-thinking sustainable architecture with intentional design to improve the health and happiness for it’s users.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — BA Architectural Design. Minor in Urban Planning. Departmental Honors with thesis on Urban Agriculture for Carbon Neutral Cities Seattle, WA 2018- 2022

3.79 GPA, Academic focus: Architecture, design, urban planning and sustainability.

EXPERIENCE

SMR ARCHITECTS — Architectural Staff

Seattle, WA March 2022 - Current Full Time

• Collaborate on project team through project planning and design, development and documentation, project management and construction administration to design and construct affordable housing that puts people first and enhances neighborhoods in the greater Seattle region. Projects worked on include:

• Creekside Village on Vashon: New Construction - 41 Units Schematic Design-Building Permit Client: Shelter Resources, Inc. & Shelter America Group. Construction begins spring 2025.

• Juniper Apartments on Yesler Terrace: New Construction 144 Units

- Construction Documents Resdesign-Permit Documents, Construction

Administration Client: Seattle Housing Authority Construction complete October 2025.

• Office Participation: Emerging Professionals leadership and Summer Internship Committee 2023 and 2024.

NINEBARK DESIGN BUILD LLC — Emerging Designer and Constructor

Seattle, WA March 2021 - October 2021 Full Time & Part Time

• Operate construction tools on job-site using sustainable construction methodology including Passive House and Living Building Challenge.

ARCHITECTURAL BUILDING INSPECTIONS — Intern Seattle, WA June 2020 September 2020 Full Time

• Assisted in architectural building inspections formatting information for presentations.

• Worked on client design projects.

LSW ARCHITECTS — Architecture Intern Vancouver, WA 2015-2017 Part Time

• Selected to participate in competitive design and architecture student learning program.

UW CENTER FOR ANXIETY AND TRAUMATIC STRESS

Research assistant for pilot project on sexual assault and memory retention on UW campus. One quarter.

CULTURAL WORK EXCHANGE — Hawaiian aquaponics farm and Sardinia Italy on Biodynamic vineyard.

OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES — 2 year self-initiated service project leading art workshops, creating a garden, and fully furnishing a room for homeless families. Received $2,000 grant from Lowe’s to complete projects at the shelter.

Advanced in Revit, Enscape, Rhino, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Microsoft Suite, Procore Proficient in AutoCAD, SketchUP, Arc GIS Knowledgeable in construction methodology and construction administration, design, graphic arts.

Skilled communicator, self starter and team player.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ACADEMIC

CREEKSIDE

VILLAGE ON VASHON ISLAND

Work Experience at SMR Architects Fall 2023Current Team: Anna Galloway, Heather Jenkins, David Albers Role: Architectural Staff Media: Revit, Enscape and Photoshop

New Construction 41 Units Schematic Design through Building Permit Client: Shelter America Group, Shelter Resources, Inc.

Creekside Village provides needed affordable housing for Vashon Island’s service sector employees. The scarcity of affordable rental housing for Vashon employees has been a long-standing and significant problem, and has become more acute in recent years impacting lower wage-earning households, as well as the island’s social and racial diversity, and the viability of the island’s small businesses. The project’s location – a walkable ¼ mile from multiple buses serving the island and ferry terminal, and walkable to the island’s

is also strongly aligned with the needs of the target population.

This housing complex includes 3 2-story buildings with 1, 2, and 3 bedroom units, a community room, and outdoor amenities. The project is smaller scale and embeds into the site without drastically standing out from the context. The design echoes a barn aesthetic to meld with its rural surroundings.

In my role as architectural staff on the project was heavily involved in the schematic design and carried the concept through design development and into construction administration. The project is scheduled to begin construction in the Spring of 2024.

After the client selected the profile for our exterior elevation, created color options that would blend with the natural site.

General project view showing the forested open space infilling around the buildings.

YESLER TERRACE

IN SEATTLE PERSPECTIVE 1 - Unit rendering, typ. There are 25 different unit types in this project.

Work experience at SMR Architects Fall 2023

- Current | Team: Rumi Takahashi, Nate Sauter, Jonathon Wright Role: Architectural Staff Media: Revit, Enscape and Photoshop

New Construction, 144 Units Construction Documents Redesign, Permit Documents, Construction Administration Client: Seattle Housing Authority 901 South Main St Seattle, WA 98104

Juniper is a 7-story multifamily affordable housing project that is the last apartment on Seattle Housing Authority’s redevelopment of Yesler Terrace which is replacing the city’s first publicly subsidized housing community which was built in 1940 and was in need of repair. The redevelopment began 2013 and replaces the aging 561 single family houses to provide over 1,000 units of new affordable housing for families earning no more than 30% of the area median income in addition to new parks and open space and expanding transportation conveniently located close to the city’s urban core.

ZONING MAP - The project is located close to I-5 and had easy access to Seattle’s urban core.

PERSPECTIVE 2 Mail room rendering This is the centralized location where residents will pick up their mail.

PERSPECTIVE 3 - Exterior walkway where special attention was paid to the unit entry experience.

PERSPECTIVE 4 - Community room rendering PERSPECTIVE 5 - The community room kitchen has a photo graphic for an interesting visual element.

PROJECT RENDERING

PERSPECTIVE 6 Residential hallway. Special attention was paid to create an entry experience.

created this project image for marketing. The project’s unique shape was derived from unique site conditions and centers the units on the east side around a central courtyard. The exterior wood walkway was a key part of the design concept which draws circulation to the building’s exterior. See the image below for the exterior walkway experience.

Juniper is one of 19 new apartment buildings and it provides 100% affordable family housing consisting of residential units and related amenity and support spaces. The building is five stories of wood-framed construction over 3 stories of concrete construction and is built on a complicated site with steep slopes and poor soils.

joined the project after it became unfrozen from a funding hold which has lasted for a couple of years, and worked as a staff through a redesign where we added an additional story and replaced 2-bedroom units with family units. We had to work with a new accessibility code, so updated our units to comply with 2008 ICC code and FHA. One of my biggest projects was designing the interior package for an ASI during construction. selected finish materials for the entire building and worked to finalize the building’s exterior design. The images on the right are finish material renderings created for the client for material selections.

Media: Enscape and Photoshop

KEY PLAN

SOUTHWEST FACADE - Regulated facade articulation is appropriately scaled and of sufficient depth to allow windows on the sides of the projecting volumes. The ground plane contains trees and bioswales that provide visual interest and a biophilic element.

The building’s unique form responds to the constrained and challenging site features. The east building wraps around a central courtyard. The facades provide visual interest with modulation, use of accent color gradient on exterior walls and specialty cladding at massing changes at primary building entries The effect promotes new development that contributes to an attractive streetscapes avoiding the appearance of blank walls along a street. Juniper fosters a sense of community by integrating new pedestrian-oriented multifamily development with the neighborhood street environment and by promoting designs that allow easy surveillance of the street by area residents. The development seeks to promote livability by providing a sense of openness and access to light and air.

NORTH FACADE - Vertical articulation along the Northwest facade and horizontal gradated accent colors along the Northeast facade serves to differentiate the West wing and East wing typologies. Specialty material at the volume above the primary building entry provide orientation and access signals to visitors. At the ground floor, exterior unit entries, porches, patios and border planting provide human scale and variety.

worked closely with Seattle Housing Authority the project’s owner and Andersen Construction, the contractor once the project began construction in October 2023. tracked the RFIs and Submittals for the project and managed the communication with the consultants. During construction visited the site weekly for an OAC and job site walk where would observe and photograph the progress and write a field report which would be shared with the project team. The project will be completed in summer of 2024.

There were many challenges we addressed during construction including complex underground work due to the site’s steep slopes and poor soil.

NORTH FACADE - North facade fronts on to the newly constructed Private Access Drive which connects the project to east neighbor Hoa Mai Gardens and the larger Yesler Terrace Community to the north. Primary pedestrian and vehicle access to the project is along this facade, which is also the most level portion of the site. The massing along this facade contains many plane changes and creates a protected central courtyard.

Some notable site features by the apartments include the yesler terrace hill climb, a new pedestrian connection between three Seattle neighborhoods: Yesler Terrace, Little Saigon, and First Hill. The Yesler Terrace Park is also a new play area uphill from the site.

west – Excavation for waler beam installation.

PHOTO FROM 12/20/23 - NE corner

REVISIONS / NOTES NODATEDESCRIPTION

SITE ANALYSIS DIAGRAM

NINEBARK DESIGN BUILD |

DORSCH FAMILY RESIDENCE

Work experience at Ninebark Design Build March 2021- October 2021 Team: Ryan Mankoski, Ian Glass Jack Kirtley | Role: Emerging Designer and Constructor

Rehab Project Construction Phase Client: Private Owner | Columbia City, Seattle

collaborated on a project to convert a 100-yearold family residence into a energy efficient passive house, with a high-tech continuous building envelope and low electricity demands mainly supplied by a photovoltaic systems on the roof. The home is heated with a heat pump and radiant floor heating.

My role as an Emerging Designer and Constructor primarily consisted of manual labor, where operated machinery and learned sustainable construction methodology. My boss Ryan designed the project and was working on the contractor having full control of the projects concept and realization. This experience solidified my commitment to employ my skill-sets to center the environment through all the work do.

While was working on this project, took a class at the University of Washington on building science where applied the lessons learned in this project to design my down concept for a passive house. See the following page for my design.

The project’s existing condition was single family home with a single level and a unfinished basement and attic. This image is what the attic looked like when we began.

This image shows the interior framing of the level 2 addition. This new level created two additional bedrooms with storage space.

The first phase of the project was a major deconstruction where we stripped the entire structure down to its studs. We added a second level where the attic was.

Project view from the south east project corner during construction. The existing siding is stripped on the south side in order to create a new advanced building envelope.

STELLA HOUSE DADU

Academic Project | ARCH 431 Energy and Environmental Systems for Buildings Spring 2021

10 Weeks Professors: Rob Pena, Preston Pape

Project teammate: Froy Contreras Media: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

After my experience working on the rehab project at Ninebark design build, had an opportunity to design a passive house with my classmate Froy Contreas which responded to the environmental context of Duluth Minnesota, where the project was set.

This was our project statement:

FOUNDATION SYSTEM - all six sides of the building envelope must be airtight, vapor permeable, superinsulated. The slab on grade is poured over a superinsulated layer of foam.

The Stella House DADU is an exemplar of design in high performance home building. Nestled in a neighborhood near Lake Superior in Duluth Minnesota, the Stella House employs an advanced building enclosure with optimized solar design to protect from the severe climate which drops far below zero in the winter months. The roof extends down over the north side of the building providing a wind-block and serving the function of storage. To achieve net zero energy a photovoltaic system provides electricity and heats water stored in a tank for an in-floor radiant heating system enhancing the thermal comfort of the home. The home’s modern and clean palette demonstrates how high performance structures can rival the beauty of any building, making it the perfect home for a couple.

WINDOWS AND DOORS - The windows and door are triple-glazed with a high solar heat gain. The windows have a very thin frame (the weakest part, thermallyspeaking, so that the whole frame can be over-insulated and fully embedded into the wall assembly.

SOLAR ORIENTATION The project shading strategy protects from Summer sun and capitalize on winter sun. In December at 2 pm the windows will be in full sun. In July-May at 6 pm the building will be fully shaded.

PASSIVE

SALUS

AQUAM

FOR HEALING IN ROME, ITALY

Academic Project | Spring 2022 10 Weeks

Professors: Brian Mclearan, David Miller, Frank

Ching Media: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

The Salus Per Aquam is Latin for “healing from water” and is a wellness center designed for mind and body healing, with organic curving forms that meld with the topography. The complex challenges the institutional approach to healthcare and promotes a culture of less stigma and more understanding for mental health and well-being. The welcoming publiclyoriented building complex invites visitors up from the Colosseum plaza into a healing space with open air circulation integrated with nature.

Connecting the busy tourist center to the sloping hillside directly south of the Colosseum,the Salus Per Aquam creates a quiet space through an intentional pedestrian approach leading to a land bridge that spans across the road to the wellness center. Visitors arrive from the land-bridge to a vegetated roof framed by a community center which hosts an art gallery and cafe and a reception hall where they can access various health treatments. The Center provides restorative proactive treatment including therapy, massage, acupuncture, and a relaxation spa that encourages visitors to enjoy a healthy mindful lifestyle and get on top of health issues before they develop into chronic problems.

PERSPECTIVE 1 - Interior view of the sunken spa experience. Visitors spiral down from the ground level.

PERSPECTIVE 3 - View from the south approach with Colosseum visible.

PERSPECTIVE 2 - Interior view of the dining and gallery space which prioritizes natural light.

PERSPECTIVE 4 - North facade north approach from the land bridge

VISITOR EXPERIENCE

Guests staying for health and relaxation treatment enter through the reception hall and spiral to a sunken level where the spa and yoga studios embed in the earth characterized by curving walls and vast circular openings where natural light pours through creating a visual connection from the public level. The Center provides restorative proactive treatment including therapy, massage, acupuncture, and a relaxation spa that encourages visitors to enjoy a healthy mindful lifestyle and get on top of health issues before they develop into chronic problems.

Taking this approach, the complex echoes the Roman daily tradition of bathing. Bath houses like the Baths of Caracalla were public facilities offering many amenities and open to all classes. In addition to bathing pools at various temperatures, Roman Baths offered massage treatment, saunas, exercise and gymnastics facilities, libraries, gardens and social spaces. Water played an important role in Roman daily life provided to the city with a complex system of aqueducts and available to the public through elaborate public fountains. The Salus Per Aquam Center honors the Roman connection to water as a healing source in the modern context of the postpandemic world.

RENDERED INTERIOR SECTION

PROJECT VIEW FROM THE COLLOSSEUM

FOR HEALING IN ROME ITALY

Academic Project Spring 2022 10 Weeks

Professors: Brian Mclearan, David Miller, Frank Ching

Media: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

Visitors arrive from the land-bridge to a vegetated roof framed by a community center which hosts an art gallery and cafe and a reception hall where they can access various health treatments. Guests staying for health and relaxation treatment enter through the reception hall and spiral to a sunken level where the spa and yoga studios embed in the earth characterized by curving walls and vast circular openings where natural light pours through creating a visual connection from the public level. Taking this approach, the complex echoes the Roman daily tradition of bathing. The Salus Per Aquam Center honors the Roman connection to water as a healing source in the modern context of the post-pandemic world.

created a series of three models to capture the site and the integration with my project. The Salus Per Aquam responded to existing site boundaries, the sloping grade, and the program of the busy tourist area and the adjacent hill. The images below show the final model used to present my project.

URBAN FOOD CENTER IN COLUMBIA CITY

Academic project Spring 2021 10 weeks Professors: Daniel Stettler and Scott Classen Media: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

The Urban Farm center exhibits the potential and process of urban farming, and addresses food insecurity in downtown Columbia City. The building hones education, community, and sustainability. The space functions to educate visitors about urban farming practices, and teaches skill-sets in food literacy and sustainability. The form and function seeks maximum transparency, with every part of the structure exposed and part of the visitor experience.

The building provides a food bank, dining hall, education spaces, indoor and vertical farming, and production and administration spaces. Situated in a rich urban context, The urban Food center integrates with local food systems and urban gardening infrastructure, to increase food accessibility to lowincome residents.

SITE DIAGRAM: SOLAR EXPOSURE - Growing space should be located on the South and East side to take advantage of the solar orientation.

SITE DIAGRAM: SURROUNDING GREEN SPACE - Interagency Academy’s green space across the street opens the opportunity to extend the urban framing classes and workshops outside of the building’s foot print.

INTERIOR EXPERIENCE

The publicly-oriented open form creates moments and intentional circulation that exhibit the building’s internal production operations where lettuce and micro-greens are grown on-site. The building seeks to integrate with the urban context connecting with local food banks, grocery stores, schools, and the p-patch system. Overall the structure will provide for the community and foster healthy lifestyles and sustainability.

KEY PLAN

The building’s form was derived by creating series of physical models to explore how to occupy the site which is a currently empty half block. created the first model by interlocking five volumes which represented different programs in the building. From there the volumes were each broken in half adding complexity to the form. The final study model analyzes the formed space and established material contrast between the heavy massing structure (wood and concrete and light steel and glass growing areas). This model laid the groundwork for the final building forms.

PERSPECTIVE 1 - Main approach from corner of S Edmunds St and 37th Ave S. The urban-scaled stairs connect to the side walk invited the public up into the building.

BUILDING INTEGRATED AGRICULTURE DIAGRAM

Honors thesis research Spring 2022 10 weeks Professors: Gundula Proksch, Kathryn Merlino Rogers Media: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

After completing the Urban farm project, followed my interest in building integrated agriculture with my honors thesis project where explored how growing food within urban areas could contribute to carbon neutral future cities. explored the concept of creating closed-loop aquaponic farms within abandoned industrial buildings to produce both produce and fish for directly for the cities they exist in. For this conducted a precedent study of the BIGH farms in Belgium which produces sustainable greens through an zero waste closed-loop aquaponics system. It is an adaptive reuse project that operates on a closed loop circular system. created the diagram on the left to show how the internal building system operates.

GROWING SYSTEMS: AEROPONICS

Leafy Greens Aeroponioc Mist

LED Lighting

Cloth Medium

Solution Chamber

VERTICAL GROWING SYSTEM

PRESERVATION CENTER IN EASTERN WASHINGTON

Academic Project Fall 2020 7 weeks Professor: Rob Corser | Media: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

This center for native ecology preserves and celebrates the unique biodiversity and characteristics of the site: a rugged but fertile valley in Eastern Washington. The site functions to inform visitors about natural balance and ecology, and preserve and protect the native biodiversity for future generations. The structure does not seek to colonize the land, but instead respond to the natural ecology without disrupting the natural flow and balance of the environment. The site provides a mixed-use education center, a bank for temporary seed storage, a lively marketplace where native seeds and plants can be purchased, and a secure vault for long term seed preservation. The form and function was derived from a careful analysis of the site’s history which saw centuries of Ice Age flooding. See the following two pages from the site analysis.

The structure includes a public exhibit space to inform visitors about the natural ecology and history of the land. Here people can purchase native plants and seeds to foster the natural ecology. The site will contain a nursery area where plants are cultivated with an area left completely wild to study the natural process and cycles of the land, and a controlled environment to cultivate plants to see and seeds to harvest. The public will not be able to access this area, but they will be able to view it. Last, a deep vaulted space will store native seeds in a highly controlled locked space that will preserve seeds of the region for thousands of years and serve as a time capsule for a rapidly developing world confronted by drastic climate change. This location is only accessible by scientists and prioritizes security. The structure should be low maintenance, drought and flood tolerant, and fire-wise.

WATER AS A CATALYST |

SITE INTERPRETATION IN EASTERN WASHINGTON

Academic Project Fall 2020 7 weeks Professor: Rob Corser Media: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, physical model making

Before designing the Ecological Preservation Center, did a deep analysis of the site focusing on how water has been a catalyst for the unique features of the land.

Around 15,000 years ago, ice age flooding with 500 cubic miles of water ripped through the landscape creating the unique flood plain site features, including coulees, glacial erratics, and wavy landforms. The site is on an undeveloped path along the flow of freshwater. The location supports a wide range of wildlife and plants, some found nowhere else on earth. The ecosystems include alpine tundra, coniferous forest, riparian and freshwater systems, and shrub-steppe.

Mule deer and big-horn sheep roam the foothills, and Chinook, sockeye, and coho salmon, and steelhead swim the waters. The surrounding area is sparsely populated and the regional economy is based in agriculture and outdoor recreation. This location was occupied by the Columbia-Wenatchi people who now reside on the Colville Indian Reservation and a small number living on the Yakima Nation Reservation.

DIAGRAM 1 - Haystack boulders were deposited from floods during Pleistocene ice flooding.

DIAGRAM 4 - The complex uses regenerative design and closed-loop systems to produce zero waste as observed in natural systems.

DIAGRAM 2 - The floods left behind “coulees”which are stream beds or gullies that all over what is now eastern Washington.

DIAGRAM 5 The peak flow of the floods is estimated to be 40 to 60 cubic kilometers per hour (9.5 to 15 cubic miles per hour).

DIAGRAM 3 In the early 1940s, geologist Joseph Pardee first identified wavy landforms as ripples not unlike those seen in the bed of a stream.

DIAGRAM 6 Many layers of glacial lake sediments are found situated on top of one another; each layer represents a separate filling of the lake.

RENDERED SITE PLANS - The three images show the site at different scales. First there is the zoomed out vicinity plan (1), the rendered site plan (2), and then the building floor plans (3).

FLOODING DIAGRAM Throughout geologic history, water has shaped the site into what it is today. This site model shows a coulee cliff carved out by thousands of years of flooding and highlights the layers of glacial lake sediments found situated on top of one another. Today, a small stream exists at the lowest point of the landscape, but flooding occurs occasionally, as shown in the diagrams below. The design for the Ecological Preservation Center is designed to respond to the natural water cycles of the area. The building is flood resistant, and stores water during droughts in an underground vault. The diagrams below show the patterns for flooding on the site.

PHOTOGRAPHER’S STUDIO IN BALLARD

Academic project Spring 2020 6 Weeks Professor: Jennifer Dee Media: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Physical Modeling

This design for an artist’s studio in Ballard was designed through a site analysis guided by our professor Jen Dee where we analyzed forces which have contributed to the site’s formation in a poetic sense- thinking about how the site has been formed by air, water, and human forces. From there we looked at the site from the perspective of an Artist and explored David Hockney’s use of positive and negative space. The studio was designed for an artist like Hockney and the form was derived by force analysis explored through diagrams and sketches which were developed through the 10-week quarter to solidify a concept. The image below shows my final “force diagram” modeled in the site. Attention was paid to the material contrast, orientation, and interaction.

The Artist’s studio form responded to forces which shaped the site (geologic events, human history, seasons, weather) explored through diagrams and sketches. Attention was paid to positive and negative space, orientation, and interaction. began with gesture sketches in charcoal (see figure 1) and then interpreted the sketches in physical models (figures 2 & 3). Last created gesture sections (figures 4).

FIGURE 2 - Gesture Model

FIGURE 1 - Gesture sketch.

FIGURE

MOLDING SPACE | STUDIO FOR A POTTER

Academic Project Fall 2020 3 weeks Professor: Rob Corser and Mariana Gutheim Media: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Physical Modeling

This project was an exercise in creating conceptual space from a 2D concept to a inhabitable space. The process began by creating a collage that interpreted the design elements in the tapestry “Three Musicians by Le Corbusier (see figure 1). The collage was interpreted into a 3D model (see figure 2) which was then translated into models of physical space, eventually leading to the form for the final design.

FIGURE 1 Collage interpretation

RENDERED PLAN The building has a dynamic transition from an exterior porch space to a dark central core where the potter’s wheel is.

AXON DIAGRAM

Moving right to left, the building offers a dichotomy of experiences catered to the potter’s creative process. On the left side, there is a dark womb-like space where the potter’s wheel lives. The room is sunken in the ground and has the experience of being underground. The central space is a large room offering a flexible space preparation and storage of clay, as well as a display for the completed works. On the right side, there is an open air kiln which.

MOLDING SPACE FORM DEVELOPMENT

The pottery studio form was developed by creating many study models that explored concepts conveyed in the 3D object had created. The models interpreted the 3D object into occupiable space that provided a studio for an artist. For several weeks developed concept models which explored the transition from linear space into abstract organic forms. After my first critique realized had been bound by linear forms. created more iterations to explore organic shapes and explore how the separate experiences within the studio could be integrated to feel cohesive.

The final form combined the two study models shown below and explored abstraction of form and light filtration. The forms were organic and reflected forms which could be created in pottery. You can see a theme of shadow casting and spatial transitions explored in the two models.

TRANSVERSE WEST SECTION - Interior view looking towards the pottery wheel area with pottery stored on side

EAST SECTION - Back entrance view looking towards the patio work space

FIGURE 2 3D Model Interpretation of the collage

SOUTH ELEVATION VIEW - The structure uses organic shapes.

PERSPECTIVE 1 - View of deck looking into the studio.

TRANSVERSE

ROOM FOR A WRITER: ROOM WITHIN A ROOM

Academic Project Winter 2020 4 Weeks Professor: Jennifer Dee Media: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Physical Modeling

The project began with an investigation of the inter-relationship between a room within a room and positive and negative space. Guided by readings by Juhani Pallasmaa and Annie Dillard, this project explores ideas about writing, interiority, distance and intimacy. The design creates a space to inspire writing. In my design, water draws the writer through the space indicating the path of travel. The water begins at a shallow depth and slowly transitions to overwhelming depths.

PATH OF WATER DIAGRAM - PLAN

PERSPECTIVE 1 - view looking to the upper writing room

PERSPECTIVE 2 - View from the lower reflection pool to the stairs

PERSPECTIVE 3 - Entrance Hallway line of water visible which was a guiding force in the spatial design NORTH SECTION View with exterior wall removed

ROOM FOR A WRITER FORM DEVELOPMENT

Digital representation of the final modeled Room for a writer (left side).

The building’s form was designed by iterations of many models. The first iterations were completed in clay. See images of three study images below.

STUDY MODEL #1

STUDY MODEL #3

STUDY MODEL #2

In this studio designed and built a complete chair over a 10 week quarter. The frame used beech wood with a Danish soap stain and the sling used a buffalo hide. Through the process learned about materials, primarily wood and the properties of wood grain and texture. learned methods such as traditional use of hand tools, modern machinery, and digital design and technology. used CNC cutting to digitally create the forms for my frame. My chair included the process of design development, analysis, modeling and production will follow a typical building design Studio. My chair was designed for a living room for reading.

DESIGN PROCESS PROGRESS MODELS

My process began by iterating to develop a final design concept for my chair using hand sketches and models made in Rhino. Once my design was finalized, built a comfort model out of cheap materials to determine my final dimensions and to test the comfort of my concept. After this built a structure model primarily from found materials to determine the structural design and form. After this purchased my final materials and spent the next five weeks building my final chair. curved the sides of the frame by cutting my wood into thin veneers and gluing them over a mold and vacuum pressing the form. created jigs from cnc-cut templates for the leg members to ensure an accurate and uniform form. The biggest challenge was my chair falling off my table during the glue up and breaking and cracking in two locations. This was a large challenge but was resolved with wood glue and my final chair was sturdy.

Detail of the leather engaging with the wood frame.

Final Chair

Detail of the top of the leather sling and continuous wood frame.

Academic Project Winter 2022 10Weeks Professors: Kimo Griggs, Steve Withycombe Media: Designed with hand sketching and rhino, constructed by hand.

Final Comfort Model built using cheap found materials.

FINAL WOOD STRUCTURE DESIGN

Fitting for the Leather Sling

Complete frame before Glue-Up

Final Structure Model built with found materials. revised the forms from this model.

Academic Projects ART 190 - Intro to Drawing 2019

ARCH 200 Design Drawing 2020 Media: Charcoal

These 3 images are from 2 drawings classes took in University. In Art 190 did a drawing series to represent observational study on the proportion of human facial structure. The process began with drawing a skull, drawing a bust, and last drawing a live model.

In ARCH 200 Design Drawing learned how to draw in architectural representation. The image on the top left is an observation drawing of a spatial corner looking up into the roof of Gould Hall.

Observation

BIRDHOUSE DESIGN

ABI INC. Design Competition 2020 Rhino design drawings, wood work.

participated in a birdhouse design competition through Architectural Building Inspections where was employed for a summer internship and won a $500 prize and funding and resources to construct my concept. This process involved creating a detailed concept, generating accurate construction documents, purchasing materials, and constructing the final design- one model for my boss and one for myself to keep.

DRAWINGS PLANS

ELEVATION

ART 190 DRAWING Studio of human facial form.

190 DRAWING - Still live from observation

Academic Project Design 166 Spring 2020 7 Weeks

Professor: Jayme Yen Media: Designed with hand sketching, physical model making, Rhino

This back packing feminine hygienic kit is designed to make the outdoors accessible for individuals with a uterus during their menstrual cycle. The kit is designed to fit in the side sleeve of a backpack where it is securely stored while on the trail. The kit addresses the Leave No Trace principles of outdoor recreation and contains disposable baggies to properly pack out all trash. created many iterations of this product before developing it’s final form. This was my final project for Design 166.

The package was designed to be constructed without any glue or fasteners. The entire package could stand sturdy on its own just through folding. See the image on the right for the product layout.

ITERATION #1 - Rectangular fold out concept

ITERATION #2 - Triangular fold out concept

PRODUCT IMAGES -Final Concept

PRODUCT EXPERIENCE

Product Story Board Media: Illustrator

The storyboard on the right shows the life line of the product starting with when it is purchased, used, and last reused. The kit contents include sanitary wipes, biodegradable soap, a menstrual cup, and disposable baggies. The split design of the product allows it to balance on uneven outdoor terrain, and it designed to be restated an reused on all outdoor adventures.

Media: Digital

IN-USE STORAGE

PRODUCT LIFE LINE STORY BOARD

Academic Project Design 166 Spring 2020 3 Weeks| Professor: Jayme Yen Media: Photoshop, illustrator, InDesign

This design concept for a front cover of a New York Times Magazine responded to articles in the At Home issue of the California Sunday Magazine. The final version depicted the article titled, Living on Foot, telling the story of Jeff Garmir who does not have a permanent home and spends his time hiking.

DIGITAL ART FOR THE UW DAILY SCHOOL NEWSPAPER

Design work experience Illustrations created over the 2 and a half years worked at the newspaper Media: Illustrator, Procreate

created these designs while working at an illustrator for the UW Daily Newspaper. The illustrations were published in the school newspaper accompanying articles written by students. The articles author would write a prompt for what was desired for the illustration and would create a graphic that captured what was described. worked as an illustrator for a year, and then got hired on to be the illustrations editor for the newspaper. In this role managed team of 23 illustrators: assigning work and managing budget. The position was collaborative with the rest of the publication team and met with the rest of the staff regularly working to ensure the newspaper published quality work.

ILLUSTRATION 1 - created for an article titled Fahrenheit 2020: Academia in contemporary America about the lack of diversity in Humanities reading lists.

ILLUSTRATION 4 - created for an article about one woman’s experience in a float tank titled: I’m looking for a little peace and quiet

ILLUSTRATION 2 - created for an article titled How to not be stuck inside this autumn about hike recommendations that area accessible during colder fall months.

ILLUSTRATION 5 - created for an article titled Does creativity thrive or die in isolation? about how students in art programs will respond to classes online.

ILLUSTRATION 3 - created for an article titled Students are teachers, too about the concerns student teachers had for beginning a quarter on zoom.

ILLUSTRATION 6 created for an article titled Mind full, or mindful? which was on the physiology of mindfulness and how we can use it now more than ever