Portfolio 2018

hannah george portfoli r o

2016 - 2019

hello My name is Hannah George, and I am a junior in the Bachelor of Architecture program at the University of Texas at Austin. The following portfolio arranges a selection of work from my first three years in school.

I am also majoring in Plan II, an honors liberal art degree ending with a thesis. My interdisciplinary education influences my work both in process and in final product.

I often read or write during the design process, for example, and value solutions that synthesize many priorities: aesthetic, environmental, structural and conceptual. Experiential qualities and conceptual clarity are my main priorities as a designer, and I’m looking forward to advancing my understanding of both in a professional environment this summer.

Currently, I am seeking a summer internship at an architecture firm in either Dallas or Austin.

contact 2308 Rio Grande St Austin, TX 78705 Unit #107 hannahkgeorge@utexas.edu 817.907.1161

contents resume

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resist

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extended home

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two kindergartens

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urban park

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linkedin

education 2021

University of Texas at Austin Bachelor of Architecture Five year professional degree program

2021

Bachelor of Arts, Plan II Honors interdisciplinary program with thesis work

2016

Carroll Sr. High School - Southlake, Texas I graduated Cum Laude

experience 2017 - present

Texas Architect Magazine - Freelance Writer I write articles for the seasonal print magazine, correspond with firms, conduct interviews with architects and articulate my opinions on architecture

2017 - 2018

Daily Texan - Reporter and Columnist I had a weekly column in the campus newspaper about campus architecture, its intent and the stories behind it 2016 - present

2016 - present

2015 Summer

2015 - present seasonal

The Nocturnal Literary Review - Design Lead, Associate Editor I lead design for annual print magazine, designed our new website, designed our outreach initiatives for both print and social media and manage a team of four designers RUF - Leadership Team I am a member on the Hospitality Team, I host and cook weekly dinners from my home, generally build community within our organization and manage funding from donors Starbucks - Barista I completed Starbucks training, made coffee, and worked 20 hours a week Wesley Cafe - Barista I completed training in a third-wave cafe, worked as a barista and shift lead.

While on staff, I invented new drinks, befriended regulars and made the official cafe playlist

skills digital Rhinocerous, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Autocad, Grasshopper, Revit, SolidWorks, Microsoft Word, WordPress analog Modelling, hand drawing, sketching, watercolor other Writing, speaking, graphic design

languages

english arabic spanish reference Judith Birdsong Lecturer at the University of Texas school of Architecture jcbirdsong@utexas.edu

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resist Intermediate III, Fall 2018 Professor Judith Birdsong China Cove’s built environment is haunted with a largely forgotten history of mass systemic racism. The former Angel Island Immigration Station, built in 1910, was erected hastily to meet the goals of the Chinese Exclusion Act: to keep as many Chinese and Japanese immigrants from successfully immigrating as possible. The result was essentially imprisonment: unlivable conditions, insensitive hospital treatments and indiscriminate interrogations. People were kept on the island for as long as two years before immigrating or being deported. After Pearl Harbor, the campus detained Japanese Americans and World War II prisoners of war in similar conditions.

The Lyceum competitions asks for a response to China cove’s contextboth physical and historical- to create a refuge where immigrants are welcomed and tourists can learn. The thought of building on any of the significant buildings- the administration building, barracks or hospital- felt like erasing history. Instead, I colonized the foundations of two historically irrelevant buildings and reused the bricks from those buildings to extrude walls from them. Reusing bricks and repurposing the original foundations felt like an act of resistance, a coup.

The northern building became the naturalization ceremony space and the southern building became the historical gallery, due to the pier and road entrances that already exist. The interior of both interiors is organized by bricks in folded plate structure, creating sublime lighting effects and excellent auditory conditions, as demanded by the program. The dichotomy between the externally brutal unarticulated form and internally highly articulated form creates a feeling of intimacy by contrast. The two buildings are connected with a submerged outdoor space drawn from the alignments of each foundation. Where the submerged space intersects with the ceremony space a stage sits. Where it intersects with gallery, a tower extends, formally reclaiming the campus.

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I imagine refuge as keeping one safe from harm. This refuge is defined by its distinction from the site, because in the distinction it remembers history and keeps occupants safe from the history of the site.

Structural Exploded Axonometric

Site Plan of Angel Island pg 7

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ground floor plan, 1/8th”=1’0” 1

historical gallery

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view tower and poetry gallery

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group meditative space

Plans of ground and second floor pg 8

The gallery space is organized and lit by a folded roof. Under each valley fold, a partition wall supports. It creates a rhythm through the space, setting a solemn tone ideal for the history learned here.

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Gallery corridor

After going through the historical gallery, visitors may ascend the tower. Designed with a double helix staircase, one person may go up and one down at a time. Patrons circumambulate around a glass elevator, periodically seeing views and translated Cantonese poetry as they go. The tower is the only time windows are pierced to allow views of the site in the whole project.

section A 1/8”= 1’0”

Light imagined inside gallery

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section B 1/8”= 1’0”

Section of auditorium with view of hospital

section C 1/8”= 1’0”

Longitudinal section of auditorium

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Rendered view from auditorium entrance

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CMU Steel Truss Brick Concrete Floor Slab Concrete Footing Brick-Panel Hanging Hardware

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(left) Structural diagram of auditorium. Trusses extend from the foundations, from which the bricks hang in panels.

Each “piece� of the surface is a pre-grouted brick panel.

The panels slide into hardware fastening them to the trusses. (right) model view from above.

Model, westward view

Model, auditorium entrance

Model, auditorium exit

extended home Construction III and Environmental Controls, Fall 2018 Professor Juliana Felkner Collaboration with Maymona Bahaa Aldin, Jacob Dasuta, Monica Husodo, Aldryn Matias and Blair Stingley The project was driven by the concept of creating both public and residential spaces.

The project looks not only to add to 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 pg 20

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Rendered exterior

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

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

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two kindergartens Intermediate I, Fall 2017 Professor Juan Jofre Two kindergartens is about operability and 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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embedded library and craft supplies

embedded chairs

resulting classroom unit

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The idea of operability carried into the early design phase of my kindergartens. Operable walls form the classroom component (far left). Campus components form from extension lines into a puzzle (left).

Pulling components apart creates a campus whose scheme is clear to the kids learning there (below).

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Site B Site plan

Site B Plan and Section

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Site A Site plan

Site A Plan and Section

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urban park 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 accomodate 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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SEMESTER IV

Map of East Austin Impervious, Pervious and Tree Cover

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 single surface, so they might be accessible from the ground floor.

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Accessible Grass Roof

Glazing

Twinwall Structural Glass Shear Walls

Concrete Floor Slabs

Elevator Shafts

Site

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Site Plan

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Plans, first and second floor

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Model, northwestern view

Model, northward view of farmers market

Model, northward view with light well

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thank you contact 2308 Rio Grande St Austin, TX 78705 Unit #107 817.907.1161 hannahkgeorge@utexas.edu