hannah george portfolio 2019
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Foundation I, Summer 2017 Clay Odom My first project at UTSOA began with two dimensional studies of figure ground compositions, which were then transformed into three dimensional forms to be programmed and organized. I designed a meditation space with indentations fit for seated meditation and kneeling prayer and a reading room with an indention fit for seating. Light is a variable in each space; dissonant fenestration casts spots of light throughout the dark meditation room; fenestration near but not at eye level fills the reading room with light without glare. After designing the spaces, I drew the path through the spaces and wrapped the new composition in an envelope. The path created a sequence from meditation to reading, with the envelope opaque and enclosing at the entrance and transparent and dappled at the exit. The result is a sequential path, with light as the tone-setter from meditation to reading, programmed at the human scale.
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The design process started with two dimensional charcoal compositions. The plan sprung from the arrangement, and elevations developed from there.
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Section of meditation space featuring meditation space, with light reimagined.
View of bridge entrance with overhead fenestration reimagined.
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urban farmstand Foundation II, Summer 2017 Smilja Milovanovich Urban farmstands need to organize farm produce while fitting within an urban context. Our challenge second semester was to design a farmers market for urban customers. Starting with iterations of wooden prisms, we speculated possible solid void relationships in section. A meandering path developed around the produce so customers have to look at all of the produce before checking out. Entrance, browsing, checking out and outdoor seating happen sequentially along the path, delineated by changes in section. Light is variable to each program: diffuse above the produce, direct over the register and shaded from the dining space. The result is a farmstand organized into a picturesque sequence, allowing urbanites to dwell a little more slowly over their produce.
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We started by making a collection of prisms, then drawing the two dimensional results. Photographs of the results inspired sections and elevations of our final project.
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Elevation
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Site Plan
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two kindergartens Intermediate I, Fall 2017 Juan Jofre Two kindergartens is about operability and overlap, with inspiration from the Reggio Emilia teaching approach. The kindergarten is divided by program: education, kitchen, nursery, play, and office spaces have distinct volumes. Each classroom has a unique shape, but comes together to form a unified whole, mirroring “coconstruction.� Coconstruction is a teaching technique-- children work individually and together on a shared project. The part-to-whole plan of Two Kindergartens is a formal representation of the Reggio Emilia’s greater idea about children learning through each other as a class. The volumes are operable to both the program and the environment. Each classroom has five elements: a stage, easels, building blocks embedded into the wall, a library, and an individual space for each student. Each of these elements is dynamically operable, embedded into walls, floors, or structure of the structure, ready to be pulled out and used. These programmatic conditions determine the form. For example there is a skylight above the stage, implying a teaching space for reading, without divided her from the students or creating a hierarchy. Each of these programmatic elements carries extension lines to the exterior form. Whether dynamic or static, the kindergarten is operated by its program/environment.
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Before starting our kindergartens, we first designed a playscape. Mine tests surface morphology and continuity with an undulating hard surface at grade and an everchanging net surface overhead. The net is climbable from multiple key points of access. Due to the elbow jointed columns, every person climbing the net changes its shape with their weight and position. The result is a playscape that engages an otherwise divided neighborhood through collaboration on it as a single art object.
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The idea of operability carried into the early design phase of my kindergartens. I decided what needs to be operable within a kindergarten- chairs, a library, and craft supplies- and embedded it all into a classroom unit.
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The classroom units fit together with other campus components in a larger whole. 1. gather components into puzzle 2. pull apart to create campus
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Site A, Site Plan
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Site A, Plan and Elevation
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Site B, Site Plan
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Site B, Plan and Elevation
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intermediate II Design IV, Spring 2018 Nichole Wiedemann Austin is experiencing an expansion problem in an already broken city plan. As most Austinite know, I35 divided Austin culturally, economically, and historically. But few outside of the community know Manor Road does the same thing, zoning the Cherrywood neighborhood separately from the Blackland neighborhood along with better school districts and infrastructure. We were tasked with making mid-level housing to accommodate growth that is sensitive to the needs of the neighborhood. After making a map of the impervious and pervious cover, I decided what the neighborhoods actually needed was a shared park. I decided to do both, making a mid rise building with a grass roof accessible at ground level. With a ramp from the north and the south, neighbors from both sides of the street can come and play with their kids here. Restaurant space is tucked under the grass roof on the Manor Road street front to boost the economic momentum of the area. A park and outdoor farmers market coalesce in the middle of the complex — located with the many paths here in mind. The end result is a mid rise apartment complex with restaurants and a market below, that is a park for every neighborhood off Manor.
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Map of East Austin Impervious, Pervious and Tree Cover
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First, we imagined an ideal apartment. This one uses light and view to organize space by program. Twinwall glass allows light but not view in to the bedroom and bathroom, while glass brings both light and view into the kitchen living and dining room.
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1. Living and kitchen combined
2. Living adjacent to light
3. Distinct office and home entrances
4. Bathroom connected to bedroom
5. Bathroom accessible to living and office
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Then, I imagined tucking apartment units under grass as a surface, so they might be accessible from the ground floor.
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The grass roofing was designed with respect to program size shape. Then, ideas of light and material carried into the structure and scheme of the final product with glass exterior walls and twinwall structural glass walls on the interior.
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Accessible Grass Roof
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Twinwall Structural Glass Shear Walls
Concrete Floor Slabs
Elevator Shafts
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resist Intermediate III, Fall 2018 Judith Birdsong China Cove’s built environment is haunted with a largely forgotten history of mass systemic racism. The former Angel Island Immigration Station, set in the cove, was designed to keep as many immigrants from becoming Americans as possible. Architecture is the physical embodiment of history. It’s how we remember what we did, how we lived and what we believed. For that reason, the Immigration Station on Angel Island must remain standing, both as reminder of America’s dark history and to honor the triumph of survivors. Immigrant history shouldn’t be erased, that would let the Station off easy. Instead, the cove needs to be reclaimed by survivors through an act of architectural resistance. To maintain the memory, foundations of two historically irrelevant buildings in the site are colonized. The bricks from those buildings are reused to extrude walls up from the existing foundations, drawing a distinction between the sanctuary and site as well as usurping the bricks’ original use. The resulting buildings become an auditorium for naturalization ceremonies, an NCIS office and interview rooms expediting the naturalization process, and a historical gallery. An outdoor submerged pavilion coalesces between the two buildings, providing outdoor flexibility to both during ideal weather. Where the pavilion intersects the gallery, a tower extends vertically, like the statue of liberty, as a final act of reclamation.
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Auditorium exit into pavillion(bottom), Auditorium Entrance (middle)
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CMU Steel Truss Brick Concrete Floor Slab Concrete Footing
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auditorium prospect tower
extruded walls define sacred space through separation from the site
trusses span auditorium
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narrow double helix staircases NCIS office
submerged pavilion
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Designed with a narrow double helix staircase, the prospect tower periodically provides views of the site and translated Cantonese poetry to circumambulating occupants one at a time.
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The gallery offers education to tourists of the island, and a voice to survivors and victims. The found Cantonese poetry is exhibited and translated for education and reflection, shown with ideal light from the folded plate roof structure.
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The gallery space is organized and lit by its folded roof. Under each valley fold, a partition wall supports. It creates a rhythm through the space, its austerity setting a solemn tone ideal for the history exhibited.
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section B 1/8”= 1’0”
section C 1/8”= 1’0”
Naturalization ceremonies occur in the auditorium, which is organized by folded plate structure to demonstrate the significance of the program occuring inside. Tucked under, is an NCIS office to further expedite and promote the immigration process.
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This sanctuary is an opportunity to honor surivors by rewriting the story for future immigrants rather than erasing the past. Here, immigrants celebrate their citizenship in an auditorium that reflects the significance of their choice, tourists are educated with accounts from immigrants, and survivors have a moment for quiet contemplation climbing the winding prospect tower. Rather than forgetting American history, this sanctuary leaves the campus intact as a reminder and resistance, reclaiming China Cove.
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seaholm out-takes Intermediate VI, Spring 2019 John Blood As Austin grows, Seaholm Powerplant is increasingly separated from its Intake Building. The two are separated by Caesar Chavez Street, a now major road, with the Intake Building sited on the river. Though disconnected today, the Intake and Powerplant buildings have historically been connected by pipes underground for radiant cooling in mechanical rooms. The Intake Building has a history of connecting to the powerplant with this service, and together the energy they harnessed served the city of Austin as a whole. With the pipes abandoned and the powerplant nonfunctional, the Intake building is cut off. Considering its history, any addition to Seaholm should reconnect it to both its twin and its city. With an infrastructural precedent set underground, a datum is established: the addition can be sited in the grid left behind by pipes. The Seaholm Building itself can be repurposed into a thermal bath-- reusing the existing hardware between it and the Power Plant for water supply as well as mechanical energy for heating. The building has always existed as an instrument for water and electricity, thermal baths are a sensible and delightful intersection of the two. Thermal baths and cinemas are both communal programs that are usually spent alone, today. Inserting these programs provides a community resource for the people of Austin, reconnecting them to Seaholm. The result is an ALTERNATE REALITY underground, equal and opposite to Seaholm Intake, fit for movie-going. Everything about being underground is opposite architecturally; space is carved away rather than put together; shadow is broken up by light rather than the reverse, and interstitial space is nonexistant until removed. A cinema necessitates an environment where suspension of disbelief is mandatory.
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Site Plan
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Courtyard Section (top), Theatre and Washrooms Section (bottom)
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Entrance to Hallway
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Baths Section (above), Entrance to Baths (bottom)
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Sauna Theatre
Ice Installation Space
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visual communications Professor Rosner, Aroso, Jofre, Smith and Bieg Summer- Fall 2017
These drawings were completed by hand. The perspective is drawn with a lead pencil and paper. The construction drawing made with a lead-holder, french curves, and rulers. The objective of these assignment was to dip our toes in hand sketching and learn how to use an architect’s tools.
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Starting with a cube in Rhino, iterative transformations create one hundred unique possibilities. Blueprints for an object are unrolled below. The objective of this assignment was to learn Rhino.
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Visual Communications III, Fall 2017 Cory Bieg, Marla Smith, Juan Jofre In the following module, we studied three methods of creating domes: physically but without glue, digitally with grasshopper code, and digitally with Revit. Grasshopper is a digital method of embedding parametric design into the design process. I designed these domes iteratively, starting with the “voronoi� pattern. I projected this pattern onto a dome shape to create the tubular first form. I extruded it in multiple ways to create different stereotomic crystallic domes.
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We also learned Revit. This shape is a cube, with volume removed from all sides. Sections are taken in Revit below.
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construction Design by Andersson Wise Construction I, Fall 2017 Charleton Lewis This is a structural model of Andersson Wise’ “Cabin on Flathead Lake.” The Cabin’s structural system consists of concrete foundations and steel beams that cantilever the porch plane Cables cross the beams, keeping them orthogonal. The occupiable part of the cabin rests on that plane, structured by a wooden plane and wooden structural walls. The cabin is enveloped in post and rail hung glazing and wood panelling. The interior is also finished in wood panelling. The load of the roof is transferred down the walls to the floor. The floor evenly distributes the loads to the steel beams below. The steel beams finally distribute the loads evenly to the ground. Tensile cables hold the steel beams upright.
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Construction III and Environmental Controls Juliana Felkner In collaboration with Maymona Bahaa Aldin, Jacob Dasuta, Monica Husodo, Aldryn Matias and Blair Stingley Our team designed this project around the concept of creating both public and residential spaces. The project looks not only to add to the Schneider Building, but also to add functionality and place to an Austin institution. A gap between the added structure and existing building provides an interstitial roof space for both the customers of Lambert’s and the residents of the complex. The folded plate structure provided the flexibility to accomodate environmental considerations without compromising formal qualities.
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Plans Ground floor, second floor and penthouse
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Penthouse interior light condition
Section due west
Section due south
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Rendered exterior
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Operable windows create axial wind corridors with a change in scale to accelerate wind flow via the Venturi Effect Clerestory Folds inset in roof structure maximizing sun expoure during cold months when altitudes are low The corrugated vertical structure angles the fenestration, shading the interiors
Section due west
The residential elevator also provides ADA accessibility to the Schneider Building for customers The opening between Silicon Labs and the Schneider Building allows residents private access to the complex The structure is elevated above the Schneider Building to create a communal space shared by customers of Lambert’s and residents
Section due south
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thank you hannah george 2308 Rio Grande St Austin, TX 78705 Unit #107 817.907.1161 hannahkgeorge@utexas.edu
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