Joanna OConnell BARCH Portfolio

Joanna OConnell Bachelor of Architecture, University of Oregon 2011-2016

Art, Architecture, and Ecological Design Current Undergraduate | Bachelor of Architecture | University of Oregon Minor Studies: Landscape Architecture, Environmental Studies I am interested in Architectural Design as a tool to integrate human function, ecological function, and artistic expression in a meaningful way. I see every project as a chance to combine these things, and the challenge becomes doing it so that the functions complement and support each other. The natural systems at play on and around the building site should inform design decisions as much as human function or the aesthetics of form.

I enjoy the challenge involved in integrating natural systems into a project, and doing it in such a way that it becomes an educational model to reshape the way we see our buildings and environments.

I think visually and I believe that the best way to start any project is with a pen and paper, and the best way to communicate ideas is through visual representation. People respond to artful expression. I like the idea that art making can be used to shape space, speak for the natural environment, and express the function of structural systems. I think good design is the ability to fully integrate all these things into efficient and compelling spaces that people enjoy.

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Contents

Urban Green Infrastructure Wetland Re-creation Portland, Oregon (6)

Community Recreation Center Brookings, Oregon (19)

Study Abroad, Public Market Copenhagen Harbor Denmark (11)

Oregon BILDS Rain Garden Design and Construction Eugene, Oregon (23)

Elliott Hill Restoration and Management Plan Eugene Oregon (16)

Early Work Visitor Center, Whitbey Island (25) Culinary School, Portland (27)

Current Project: A New Life for i Forti di Roma

Technical Drawing

Visual Representation

Details and Documentation

Sketches, Diagrams, Ceramics

Rome, Italy (29)

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Urban Green Infrastructure- Wetland Re-creation Portland, Oregon Winter 2014

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Urban Green Infrastructure

This Research-heavy studio involved starting with one of the worst aspects of urban development, the parking garage, and flipping it on its head to create something ecologically responsible within an urban brownfield site.

The project involved the redevelopment of an old industrial shipyard in the South Waterfront in Portland, Oregon.

It provided the unique opportunity to re-use industrialarcheological materials as infrastructure to support habitat and demonstrate a symbiotic relationship between industry and ecosystems. The goal was to utilize the infrastructure to improve ecosystem functions, link urban habitats, and treat storm water, while allowing the site to become a transportation and recreational hub for the waterfront.

Primary goals of the design: 1) Slow and filter storm water through an intensive green roof, vertically planted façade, Stormwater swales, and constructed wetlands.

2) Support bird, invertebrate, and riparian habitats along the Willamette River by planting native species and creating habitat structural features throughout the constructed wetlands.

3) Act as a recreational hub connecting Portland’s transportation network to the opportunities of the waterfront through a system of trails, bike paths, and boat launches at the water’s edge.

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Oyster Market on the Water Study Abroad Copenhagen, Denmark Summer 2014

Oyster Market on the Water Copenhagen Harbor runs diagonally through the city, dividing City Centre from Christianshavn and Amager to the Southeast. The site for this project was a floating platform on the Harbor adjacent to the Knipplesbrø Bridge. With a rich history of trade and industry, today the harbor serves as a recreational destination and throughway for tours. It has become a bustling corridor for kayaks, sailboats, motor boats, and canal tour boats, as well as swimmers and site-seers. The goal of the project was to use the market to connect the activity of the street to that of the Harbor by allowing the water’s edge to be pixilated. The market hall structure itself occupies the northern part of the platform, opening up the southern edge for public space. The staggered platforms extending into the water vary the edge conditions, allow for people to sit near or at the water’s edge, and encourage swimming in the clean harbor water. Inspiration for the form came from the Danish LEGO company’s “system of play” motto, as well as the experience of boulder hopping at the water’s edge.

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Habitat Restoration Plan Elliott Hill, Eugene, Oregon Fall 2014 Proposed Site Cross Section

Wetland Prairie

Upland Prairie

Oak Savanna

Mixed Woodland

Oak Woodland

Oak Savanna

Elliot Hill is a small park in a South Eugene residential neighborhood that was historically an oak savannah and oak woodland landscape before European influence. Today the small park is largely dominated by Douglas fir and invasive Himalayan blackberry that are shading out the other species, reducing the biological diversity of the area. This restoration and management proposal was designed to restore the landscape to a higher level of biological diversity and ecological health, using the historic landscape as a model. The proposal included a disturbance regime and management timeline at the site, neighborhood, and regional scales, as well as recommendations for the city and residents surrounding the park. Several management species were chosen and studied in terms of their habitat needs and spatial requirements. The stormwater plan proposed converting surrounding drain pipes into above ground swales to minimize the effects of runoff downstream. The proposal included a human element, to educate and get the community involved and in the know about this management plan and its importance to the health of the ecosystems in the area.

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Habitat Connectivity: Corridor, Canopy, and Structure CREATE OPEN SPACE FOR NESTING GOUND MAINTAIN CURRENT CANOPY COVER

INCREASE CANOPY COVER

CONSRTUCT/ LEAVE SNAGS FOR NESTING

INCREASE CANOPY COVER

INCREASE RIPARIAN ZONE VEGETATION

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Existing Habitat Patch Connections

Western *UD\ 6TXLUUHO Habitat Needs

Restore: Recommened interventions

Food, Shelter, Nest Sites Canopy connectivity Mast-producing trees Snags for cavity nesting Home Range: as small as 0.5 hectares

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Habitat Needs

Habitat Needs

Sparsley treed 2-3 acre woodlands for breeding.

Open upperstories Scattered trees and snags Low or sparse ground cover Nest boxes and bird baths Snags for cavity nesting

Large snags Dead tree limbs Appropriate 2.5 mile radius or less between granary trees

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Community Recreation Center Brookings, Oregon Winter 2015

Overall Project Goals Promote the active lifestyle Visual connections between physical activities Promote Community Gathering Activate the circulation space between primary programs Celebrate Brookings timber history Use of heavy timber structural spans, Wood rainscreen, and interior detailing Create dynamic multifunctional spaces Level changes, spaces of varied height and scales, maximizing daylit spaces

Programatic Considerations Keep and Utilize existing pool, and northern site amenities Division of member and non-member spaces by central control point Multipurpose spaces dispersed among primary programs and circulation spaces Group Tall Programs to respond to views from surrounding residences

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Oregon BILDS Rain Garden Construction Documents Spring 2015

Oregon BILDS is a student run residential design-build program that partners with Lane Community College and local professionals to design and build one single family residence per year in a low-income neighborhood in West Eugene. I worked on the construction of many aspects of the house as well as the design, plant selection, and construction of the stormwater system and rain garden.

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Ebey’s Landing Visitor Center Whidbey Island, Washington Fall 2013

Building in the Landscape Ebey’s Landing National Reserve on Whidbey Island, Washington is a dynamic place where diverse landscapes intersect. Open prairie, dense forest, fresh water lagoons, and Penn Cove all come together within the reserve, which has become a haven for outdoor activities such as hiking, biking, sailing, fishing, and clamming.

The goal of the visitor center design is to attract the attention of travelers, show them that this beautiful place exists, and ultimately push them out into it. The footprint of the building itself is small, and the site was developed in order to achieve this.

A plank boardwalk leads from the building to an outdoor recreation rental facility and down to Grasser’s Lagoon on the edge of Penn Cove. A Tensile structure provides shade for the lookout at the lagoon and gestures toward the billowing sails out in Penn Cove, while lightly touching the ground and allowing for natural flooding patterns to continue to occur around the lagoon.

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Urban Considerations Portland Culinary Institute Spring 2013

Urban Considerations This Studio focused on a restricted site within a rich urban vernacular of brick and steel facades. The challenge of this project was blending into that urban fabric without mimicking an older style. The program was organized in response to the public streetscape by extending the public opportunities into the first floor of the building. A restaurant and primary teaching kitchen are visible from the street edge to entice passersby to come in and experience the work of young cooks first hand. The remaining teaching kitchens and study spaces were occupy the upper floors, overlooking the street to remind students of the surrounding context. A central atrium brings daylight down into the circulation spaces, offices and lecture rooms. The split level floor plan allows for dynamic, varied interior spaces and a distinction between the hands-on learning spaces from the traditional lecture style classrooms.

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Current Project A New Life for I Forti di Roma Spring 2016

The eighteen military forts surrounding the city of Rome were built in the nineteenth century to protect Italy’s new capital. They were constructed from 1877 to 1891 and were armed until the beginning of World War I. Since then, they have become obsolete as defensive structures and have served as warehouses for the military, anti- aircraft artillery in World War II, and left vacant. In 1962 the Rome City Planning Scheme re-zoned the forts and their land for civic functions. This plan has not been fully implemented and many of the Forts including Forte Bravetta sit relatively empty, untouched, and overgrown.

The purpose of this design project is to imagine future civic functions for the Forts, focusing on Forte Bravetta as a model for the other seventeen, and propose a design that gives new life to the fort and the surrounding landscape.

The basis for my explorations on the future of Forte Bravetta hinge on the synthesis of civic and ecological functions. Currently the fort is not open to the public, however, its exterior has developed into a recreational landscape for many runners and walkers in the surrounding neighborhoods. As one of eighteen forts surrounding the city of Rome, Forte Bravetta has the opportunity to become one link in a long chain of green spaces circumscribing the city center. Because of this, my approach to this thesis studio project will be both architectural and landscape architectural. I would like to propose the future program for Forte Bravetta as part community event center and culinary arts center within a demonstration farm and recreational park.

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Technical Drawing Details and Documentation 2013-2016

3” RIGID INSULATION

GLASS PANEL WITH OPAQUE BACKING

HSS 16x12x1/2”

GLASS PANEL (VIEW WINDOW)

2” METAL FIRRING AROUND STRUCTURE 5/8” GYPSUM BOARD HSS 16x12x1/2”

ACOUSTIC DROP CIELING PANEL 36 LH 13 DEEP STEEL JOIST W 21x44

STRUCTURAL ALUMINUM MULLIONS SPACED 3”

ENGLERT 3” S3000 T-SEAM MECHANICALLY SEALED METAL ROOF FOIL FACED RIGID INSULATION

TJI ROOF FRAMING LAPPED WATERPROOF ROOF MEMBRANE

PLYWOOD SHEATHING FASCIA

VENT T&G EXPOSED SHEATHING

STEEL STUD FRAMED WINDOW SEAT

TRIM BOARD

MOISTURE BARRIER

PLYWOOD SHEATHING

RAINSCREEN BUILDING WRAP

TRIM

CIELING FINISH 1” AGEPAN HIGH PERFORMANCE SHEATHING (INSULATIVE R 2.3)

BLOWN CELLULOSE INSULATION

2x4” HORIZONTALLY HUNG WALL STUDS 3.5” RIGID INSULATION

5/8” GYPSUM BOARD

VERTICAL WOOD (CEDAR) SIDING HUNG ON 2X4”S

5/8” OSB SHEATHING W/ PROSOCO R.GUARD AIR & WATER RESISTANT BARRIER

GLASS PANEL WITH OPAQUE BACKING

FLOOR FINISH

HSS 10x4x3/8” HSS 16x12x1/2”

SEALANT

CONCRETE DECKING HSS 20x8x1/2”

ALUMINUM REVEAL

GLASS PANEL WITH OPAQUE BACKING TURNS CORNER

BRICK VENEER SHELF ANGLE PRECAST CONRETE HEADER FLASHING

WAUSAU SSG CURTAIN WALL WINDOW

ARCH 471 PROJECT 1 CYCLE 2 JOANNA OCONNELL 2014

DENSE PACK CELLULOSE INSULATION 5/8” GYPSUM BOARD

RIGID INSULATION

RAINSCREEN BUILDING WRAP

VERTICAL WOOD (CEDAR) SIDING HUNG ON 2X4”S 1” AGEPAN HIGH PERFORMANCE SHEATHING (INSULATIVE R 2.3) RIGID INSULATION

SLOPED AND SEALED

WOOD SILL

5/8” OSB SHEATHING W/ PROSOCO R.GUARD AIR & WATER RESISTANT BARRIER

ZOLA THERMO PLUS CLAD PASSIVE HOUSE WINDOWS

SEALANT W/ WEEP

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WINDOW TO WALL JUNCTION

3” = 1’-0”

HIGH PERFORMANCE FRAMING 2X6” STUDS @16” O.C. DENSE PACK CELLULOSE INSULATION 5/8” GYPSUM BOARD

ALUMINIUM FLASHING

OPTWIN 2 WOOD PASSIVE HOUSE WINDOWS

ZOLA THERMO PLUS CLAD PASSIVE HOUSE WINDOWS

SEALANT

POLYISO INSULATION

INSULATED BOX WINDOW FRAMING FLEXIBLE FLASHING

SEALANT W/ WEEP FLEXIBLE FLASHING & PLOYISO INSULATION

SEALANT W/ WEEP

WOOD SILL

ALUMINIUM FLASHING

WOOD SILL PLYWOOD CAP

ALUMINIUM FLASHING RAINSCREEN BUILDING WRAP

5/8” OSB SHEATHING W/ PROSOCO R.GUARD AIR & WATER RESISTANT BARRIER

RIGID INSULATION VERTICAL WOOD (CEDAR) SIDING HUNG ON 2X4”S

1” AGEPAN HIGH PERFORMANCE SHEATHING (INSULATIVE R 2.3)

HIGH PERFORMANCE FRAMING 2X6” STUDS @16” O.C. DENSE PACK CELLULOSE INSULATION

RIGID INSULATION 5/8” GYPSUM BOARD

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SECTION AT CORNER WINDOW

3/4” = 1’-0”

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Visual Representation Drawings, Sketches, Ceramics

2011-2016

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