Hailey Algoe Architectural Portfolio 2017-2021

Hailey Algoe

University of Texas at Austin Bachelor of Architecture, Anticipated 2021 healgoe@utexas.edu haileyalgoe.com

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Safety Net

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Fighting Global Warming Network

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Plant-Based Decker Lake

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Garden Housing

64 FLUX.US 81 Resume

Safety Net Professors T. Andrew Stone & Claire Townley Collaborator: Kaavya Chhatrapati UTSOA Design Excellence Nominee, Fall 2020 The seemingly disparate programmatic needs of the Community Court and the Fire Station are united through one core value: civic service. Both of these institutions serve the public of the city of Austin. The Fire Station serves the general population of Austin at large by responding to distress calls and disasters of the built environment; the Community Court fights the evils of the American justice system from within the system, providing agency and assistance to those who have been left forlorn by the built environment under capitalism. Thus, the guiding principle of the Safety Net is to unite those who serve the community and those who take advantage of the services through equitable, accessible distribution of space, creating many opportunities for public gathering and the interfacing of people from all walks of life in recreational and work settings. The building’s organic, curvilinear timber grid shell forms a semi-enclosed central courtyard which draws in homeless individuals from the 6th street and I35 facades and forms a safer foil to the harsh, imposing form of I35 under which they currently gather.

Additionally, the layering of a double façade wall of glass and sunresponsive polycarbonate louvers allows for a biophilic balcony of greenery, providing gardening work for community court defendants to easily serve their community service sentences and be integrated into the community of the building as a whole. Although programs are separated for the privacy and safety of the firefighters and community court patrons in key areas, shared spaces like the rooftop green recreation space provide areas where these two groups can interact and utilize services together. By creating a beckoning form which takes visitors into its own safe microclimate and further draws them into the building to utilize its resources, diverting them from the judicial program of the court as much as possible, this timber building combines the fire station and the court in various permeable layers of outdoor public companionship which accent its accessible interiors.

East facade, looking from I-35 underpass

Downtown Austin Historic 6th Street District: Safety Net siting

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Downtown Austin Historic 6th Street District: Existing fire station and community court shown in red and blue

Conceptual Storyboards: Experience of a firefighter (left six frames) and a person experiencing homelessness (right)

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Ground Floor Plan

Partial Plan Perspective: Fire fighter common area

Second Floor Plan

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Third Floor Plan

Roof Plan

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Wall Section: Exterior louvers, green balcony, and gridshell

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North facade green balcony

Partial Plan Perspective: Community court resource center

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Wall Section: Gridshell, central stairs, and green roof

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Green roof and portal to third floor

Apparatus bay, looking to courtyard

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Fighting Global Warming Network Professor Mari Michael Glassell UTSOA Design Excellence Winner, Fall 2019 Rather than existing as a hollow institutional gesture, the FGWN building serves as a radically accessible space for both political organizing and the behind-the-scenes work that drives a revolution.

The building is accessible to activists and open to the community at large, welcoming the homeless neighbors who share space in the Waller Creek area with specifically designed programmatic spaces intended to both protect and enrich them while also enfolding them into the fight.

The structure’s series of raised, occupiable box trusses are suspended above the site via a series of seven structural and circulatory cores.

This strategy leaves much of the ground below open as a publicly accessible plaza, eliminating a potential institutional threshold that might scare off potential visitors. The openness of the plaza serves as a vacuum, working in inverse yet in concert with the reaching members, sucking people first into the public space and then further up into the building to join the cause.

The building’s dramatic cantilevers are achieved via the use of lightweight steel trusses, which minimize the potential for deflection across the long spans. Bolted and welded at massive steel columns where the stacked floors vertically intersect, each level of the building operates as a unique occupiable cantilevering beam condition.

Any political revolution needs an inciting factor, which the building’s bold form fulfills, but also requires a flexible and adaptable space for the legwork that goes into it. The Fighting Global Warming Network Austin Chapter is to be a catalyst but also a nurturing form, a grand gesture yet a practical hub to transform Austin into ground zero for the fight against global climate change.

The world is burning.

Architecture is complicit.

“We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line.

The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.”

What are you going to do about it?

Empower the people.

Enable activism.

Liberate the environment.

“People are suffering.

People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing.

We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.

How dare you!”

Manifesto for climate architecture

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Conceptual Strategy: Architecture for community organizing

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Site Strategy: Vectors to the city

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System Diagram

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Second Floor: Community kitchen and restaurant, public access restrooms and showers, research lab, community workspace

Ground Floor: Reception lobbies, central plaza

Third Floor: Lecture hall, community workspace

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Fourth Floor: Activist hostel

Fifth Floor: Community resource library, community workspace

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Building Section: N-S

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Building Section: E-W

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Plant-Based Decker Lake

Professors Dean Almy and Juan Miró Collaborator: Omar McClung UTSOA Design Excellence Nominee, Spring 2021 The use of animal agriculture as an essential part of the American diet is having catastrophic effects on both the Earth’s climate and the quality of our communities. As the area of East Austin surrounding Decker Lake Park is set to experience unprecedented growth and development with the influx of new tech industry manufacturers to the area, a more sustainable model for urban living is required for this presently low-density, low income agricultural area.

This proposal, Plant-Based Decker Lake, utilizes the park as an exemplary prototype for a new distinctly American “Landscape City.” A broad pedestrian and transit-focused boulevard surrounds the lake, encasing a vast swath of land programmed for recreation, plant-based agriculture and education, and ecological preservation.

A series of fifteen minute cities surround the core loop, their positions dictated by the area’s flood plains, integrated again with robust transit and walkable, bikeable greenbelts.

Medium density housing blocks are comprised of community agricultural production structures and combine both communal and private outdoor spaces within their fabric. This new city strategically showcases plant-based agricultural production woven into the fabric of its residents’ daily lives; this is in order to shift the logic of sustainable agriculture into the heart of urban living, and to delicately bring urban development to a currently low-density area.

Schools

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Housing

School Admin

Single Family

Public Elementary/PreK

Multi Family

Public Middle

Commercial

Public High

General Commercial

Higher Ed

Grocery Store (with fresh produce)

Private School

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Civic Programs

Land Use Agriculture

Event Venue

Greenfield Industrial Site General Industrial Site

Public Resource Religious

Social Green Space

Medical

Major Water Bodies

Transportation Commuter Rail Bus Route

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Airport

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General Motors

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Walter E. Long Metropolitan Park

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Dell

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Community First! Village

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Austin Executive Airport

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Tesla Gigafactory Site

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Samsung Austin Semiconductor

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Hornsby Bend

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Austin Community Landfill

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1,320 ft

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2,640 ft

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Austin Bergstrom International Airport

Applied Materials

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Travis Country Correctional Complex

Louis René Barrera Indiangrass Wildlife Sanctuary

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Travis County Landfill

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Decker Tallgrass Prairie Preserve

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Circuit of the Americas

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Travis County Exposition Center

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Downtown Manor

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Travis State Jail

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1 5,280 ft

2 4 miles

Mapping: Current programmatic analysis of Austin’s Eastern Archipelago

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Concept Collages: Animal agriculture’s impact on environmental and community health in Austin

Sketches: Community spaces

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Master Plan: Decker Lake Park, fifteen minute city developments, and transit routes

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Parti: Decker Lake Park programmatic strategy

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1 Dog Park

7 Volleyball Fields

2 Aquatic Center

8 Soccer Complex

3 Orchard

9 Agricultural Research Fields

4 Event Venue 5 Flower Fields

Research 10 Agricultural Center

6 Athletic Track

11 Baseball Complex

12 Restaurants and Farmto-Table Groceries Fields and 13 Lavender Cottage Shops 14 Skate Park 15 Rec Center 16 Market Complex

Agricultural Education 17 Center and Event Complex 18 Birdwatching Lookouts Boathouse and Small 19 Craft Dock 20 Event Venue

Site Plan: Decker Lake Park representative area

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21 Event Venue 22 Amphitheater

Decker Lake Park: Flower fields and cottage shops

Decker Lake Transit Loop: Pedestrian median

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Section: Decker L

Section: Greenbelt Pe

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Lake Transit Loop

edestrian & Bike Path

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Site Map: Decker Lake Park surrounding community, representative area

3x3 Housing Block: Community square

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Axon: 3x3 Housing Block, Programmatic Distribution

Axon: 3x3 Housing Block, Ground Plane Programmatic Distribution

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Garden Terrace Professor Simon Atkinson UTSOA Design Excellence Nominee, Spring 2020 Garden Housing in the Metro San Antonio development presents a new model for urban living: terraced balconies for personalized gardening provide residents a sense of autonomy and community on the enclosed “front yard” their units spill out onto, while more robust growing gardens for food production line the ground between each housing block. This model of cooperative living and working presents an alternative to existing food distribution systems in the food desert of north downtown San Antonio, allowing for an influx of fresh produce into the area and providing agency to those who live and garden in the complex.

Mass timber construction enables material sustainability, while the shading provided by the arcuated trellises and customizable plant growth allows for ample glazing to open up onto the balcony. This provides the occupants an intimate visual connection with nature and light without excess heat gain.

By encouraging residents to work together in cooperative modes of social interaction and sustainable food production, the Garden Housing blocks form a resilient and autonomous community in the heart of the Metro San Antonio project.

Proposed Master Plan: Metro San Antonio

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Garden Terrace District

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Ground Floor: 1250 sqft units, community gardens

Second Floor: 1250 sqft units, communal amenities

N-S Site

e Section

Third Floor: 625 sqft units, communal amenities

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Building Structural System

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Three-Unit Structural System

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1250 sqft Unit: Kitchen

1250 sqft Unit: Living space

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FLUX.US Professor Adam Barrett Miller Collaborators: Aubry Klingler + Emily Yoon UTSOA Design Excellence Nominee, Summer 2020 FLUX.US presents a model of communal living for Austin artists in which complex community dynamics are continually built, challenged, and thus strengthened by collaborative labor and leisure at multiple scales: that of furniture, apartment “units,” clusters of units in artist collectives, and in the community at large. Space is mitigated within each unit and cluster by encouraging neighbors to cooperate in exploring physical and programmatic relationships between differing fixtures and furniture. Because neighbors are continually asked to work together to utilize the leisurely potential of their environments to the fullest extent, they form closer bonds and community relationships.

In addition, tasks of domestic labor are interspersed throughout the project both in the domestic realm of the apartment units and in program-flexible work units. These flexible spaces can be used as studios for artist collectives or as collectivized spaces for work necessary for the community at large. This strategy collectivizes some domestic labor tasks, presenting opportunities for waged work in usually unpaid tasks. FLUX.US simultaneously enables residents to consider the labor cost of their leisure both inside and outside of the home, all the while presenting a new mode of collectivized living for Austin’s artist community.

Conceptual Exploration: Bathing, subversion of labor and leisure

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Unit Interior: Bathing lounge and sink

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Index of unit furniture

Arrangement of furniture in two-unit cluster

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B B

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Two Combined Three-Person Units: Sections and plan perspective

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Work Units: Adaptable structures for studio space or communal labor

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Ground Floor: Artist residences, artist studios, amenities

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Second Floor: Artist residences

Roof Plan

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ELLINGSON LN

ELLINGSON LN

E 44TH ST

E 43RD ST

E 41ST ST

E 40TH ST

Site Plan: Hancock Plaza, Austin, TX

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Experiential Storyboard: A day living at FLUX.US

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Unit Interior: Operable dining divider

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Hailey Algoe healgoe@utexas.edu | 850-274-4433 | haileyalgoe.com

Leadership Experience UTSOA ISSUE Editorial Team, Fundraising, 2020–2021.

UTSOA Dean’s Ambassador, 2020–present.

AIA Austin Executive Board, UT Student Liaison, 2020.

Design Futures Student Leadership Forum, May 2019.

Education

UT Undergraduate Architecture Student Council President, 2019–2020.

Vice President, 2018–2019.

Member, 2017–present.

Work Experience

UT American Institute of Architecture Students AIA Liaison, 2019–2020.

Vice President, 2018–2019.

Secretary, 2017–2018.

Member, 2017–present.

University of Texas School of Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture Anticipated 2021. GPA 3.89/4.00

RIOS, Architectural Intern, May–August 2021

Collaborated in the SD, DD, and CD phases for two high-end residences, iterating design concepts, producing renderings, and assisting on construction documents. Worked on an internal graphics project and collaborative intern research projects.

University of Texas Center for American Architecture and Design, Senior Student Associate, August 2018–present.

Lead designer on publications, posters, and other graphics.

Assists with exhibition installation, publication image research, event planning, publication editing, and transcription.

University of Texas Hal Box Chair in Urbanism, Research Assistant, June 2019–February 2020.

Coordinated image copyright requests and permissions for the publication Architecture Beyond Experience.

Publications

Original Work TxA Community Design Blog, July 2019, “Community First:

University of Texas Senate of College Councils School of Architecture President, 2019–2020.

School of Architecture Representative, 2018–2019.

Awards and Honors

UTSOA Dean’s Design Distinction Portfolio Review Award, Spring 2020.

UTSOA Design Excellence Award Winner, Fall 2019.

Nominee, Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021.

UT Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship, 2020-2021.

Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society Inductee, 2020.

ISSUE 19, April 2019, “Center for Environmental Research”

Bringing More Voices Into Design”

James and Joanne Pratt Japan Travel Research Scholarship 2019.

Designer Moving Toward Gender Equity in Architecture, 2021

University of Texas Student Writing Flag Contest, Creative/ Reflective Category, First Place, 2019.

Assistant Editor Architecture Beyond Experience, 2020 A I R, 2020 Time for Timber, 2020

Volunteer Experience

Presentations

Goldsmith Talk, “Considerations of Convenience: Research on the Architecture of Japanese Convenience Stores,” April 22, 2020.

Moving Toward Gender Equity in Architecture, “The Equitable City: Who Owns Public Space?” February 7, 2020.

Texas Society of Architects Design Expo and Convention, “Community First: Study of Microhomes for the Homeless,”

October 24, 2019.

AIA Austin DesignVoice Committee, 2018–2020.

Tzu Chi Collegiate Association, 2017–2018.

Software Proficiencies

Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Rhino, Lumion, Grasshopper, 3ds Max and Vray, AutoCAD, SketchUp, ArcMap GIS, Autodesk Revit, Enscape, SketchUp.

Skills

Basic Japanese, basic French, model making, public speaking, formal writing, graphic design, sketching and rendering, photography, laser cutting, CNC knife, social media management.