WORK
sep 2024 - current housing development and architecture intern / Perkins Eastman Architects & Housing Development Consortium
july - dec 2024 shoreline street ends intern / Seattle Department of Transportation
july 2023/24/25 instructor of architectural studies ii / University of Washington
SCHOOL
2023-2025 masters of architecture University of Washington, Seattle
2019 - 2023 bachelor of arts in architectural design with a minor in classical studies University of Washington, Seattle
COMMUNITY
oct 2024 student panelist for UW Dept. of Arch / AIA Large Firm Roundtable Dean’s Forum in New York
2023 - current volunteer / Sound Foundations Northwest
2023 - 2024 founder and president / Somos CBE, Latine Cultural Group
2022 - 2024 professional liaison / American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)
RECOGNITION
winter 2024 featured in 2023 Study Architecture Student Showcase
spring 2023 Department of Architecture Faculty Award for Scholarship and Leadership
winter 2022, featured in the CBE Student Work Archive fall 2023
Revit, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, ClimateStudio, DIALux evo, sketching, photography, SKILLS model-making, small-scale building construction, Latin American architecture
HOME
PROF ELIZABETH GOLDEN / SPRING 2024
BERLIN, GERMANY
This project sought to design a home for a community that needs it the most. After extensive research on the current immigration influx and resulting housing crisis in Berlin, this project was designed as permanent housing for women and women with children seeking asylum, mainly from Turkey and Ukraine. This design needed to be protective and not isolating, and spark organic connections between residents. The guidelines that lead the design focused on these organic moments that make a place a home.
neighborhood-building scale: arrival, daylight, goods
designed for interaction
1 arrival
2 plants
parking your bike in the courtyard, walking down the sidewalk and seeing the building as you approach, protected entrances
trees in elevated courtyards, seeing houseplants on balconies and in windows
3 daylight approaching the building from the street is going from warmest/sunniest side into cold courtyard or hallway
point-entry and stairs/elevator, what do they see going up the stairs? is there a difference between two cores or between elevator and stair, do you feel exposed walking upstairs?
what do people see going up the elevator? large spaces in circulation so residents can use sunlight for plants
circulation cores should be bright and warm, how can it capture light when the sun angle does not work with it? what do the landings feel like?
what do you see when entering the community space? can you see through to the outside upon entering? can you see activity in the space before you enter?
where can plants be seen in communal spaces? are the plants manicured or entirely taken care of by the residents?
which places are bright and which are darker? direct sunlight access in some spaces, allow residents to sit on a couch in a beam of light
unlocking front door, what is the first thing you see entering your unit? A window, plants, your living room
sunroom or balcony options, every unit should have some direct sunlight if possible, NE facade needs large balconies to ger E and W light
high ceilings and many windows, units on NE side should have balconies that jut out and face SE
4 goods
5 food
Producer's Gallery, free boxes scattered around, will the residents allow the others around the neighborhood into their courtyard similarly?
people nearby eating at many retsaurants along the street, walking and eating, exposure to many cuisines, ice cream shop next door
6 children playgrounds located around greater neighborhood, also Producer's Gallery is occasionally open and has playground, Prater Garten has a sandbox
use courtyard to sell things if the residents want to, make sure entrance into courtyard on NE side can be opened into a welcoming threshold
have a fridge in the shared kitchen for extra food, maybe people cooked too much and have leftovers to share, or someone got a really big too good to go
what is in the courtyard? nothing for kids so that the families take their kids to a neighborhood playground? helps foster connections between residents in a safe space of mom and kids
a sharing room on ground floor: share old baby clothes, old strollers, extra plants, soil, pots; storage units for each apartment
shared kitchen with no separation to informal daycare, make the kitchen a nook with good views outside, people will be somewhat hidden as they cook
informal daycare with many small nooks for a mom and kid to sit together, larger spaces in the middle for a group of kids, tables and chairs for homework, create privacy without creating isolation
storage should be plentiful and out of sight because visible clutter can cause stress, can store larger items outside of their front door like scooters
kitchen and dining adjacent, no separation between the two, mother cooking while kid sits at the table and watches, bonding
create a bedroom that has flexibility for kids as they grow older, some kids don't want to be alone in a room for a while
7 socializing
8 meditation/rest
people walking through right-ofway to Prater Garten, people walking by along Kastanienallee, interacting with people on the street
a stoop or slightly set back entrance, feel protected from wind or rain or direct view while you unlock the door
see each other on the staircase or elevator, large landings to allow for casual chats on the way up or down, can see the stair cores from the exterior spaces
courtyard and ground floor programs, sharing room should be somewhat hidden and strictly only available or known about by residents, keep it a clean and nice space
how to balance enclosure with openness? the community kitchen and daycare needs to be divvied up by still connected
designated communal quiet area, how to mitigate acoustics? can be a shared sunroom by daycare or kitchen
balconies have some line of sight to each other, large living rooms to allow friends over
balcony or sunrooms will be an important meditative space, create privacy without isolating, either bedroom or living room can be the rest space
sound, light, and air studies
program layout
communal-unit scale: children, plants, rest
The open avenue connects the building’s an open pathway to the community lounge the sunlight. The lounge has a large shared chairs. The copper screens along the outer to allow for sunlight and ventilation or privacy whose children may now be grown can little ones should they need to go to work mainly residents of two different cultures, and informal daycare aims to bring them their homes and teach each others children
building-communal scale: daylight. There is a small playground in a patio on an upper floor of the building. It’s fairly minimal but has comfortable seats for women and mothers to sit either in the sun on cool days or in the shade on hotter ones. The play structures are limited as this playground is not designed to be a full playground; instead it is meant to allow mothers to sit and socialize in an outdoor area with less worry or attention spent on their young ones. It’s a safe place away from the neighborhood that allows the children to still want to journey out to go to a real playground. This is designed purposely to encourage the women who may still be wary of others to connect with mothers and children outside of the building.
building’s halves together. It not only acts as lounge but it has places to sit and enjoy shared kitchen and plenty of tables and outer pathway around the lounge adjust privacy and coziness. The older women offer to watch the young mothers’ work or run errands. Though there will be cultures, Turkish and Ukrainian, the kitchen them together. They can share foods from children words from their languages.
daylight. plants, socialization
unit-human scale: children, daylight, rest
The two women live together, either as friends, sisters, partners, or however. The young child can be a handful sometimes but the women both care deeply for them, to the point where it hardly matters who is the biological mother. They share the duties of childcare and readily take on a larger share of responsibilities when the other woman is overwhelmed or in need of a break. The apartment has been gradually decorated with discounted and donated furniture and houseplants. It is slowly becoming a typical Berlin apartment, inspired by the women’s walks through Prenzlauer Berg, peering into the windows of other apartments and seeing the sparkle of a disco ball.
PROF
TERRACE KITCHEN
MYER HARRELL / WINTER 2024
Rainier Beach is a historically underserved and underdeveloped neighborhood in South Seattle that has a detrimental food desert. The three main programs—fully accessible terraces for gardening, the commissary kitchen, and the many classrooms and teaching kitchen—all serve to educate locals about nutrition and growing your own food. The combination of mass timber and rammed earth reveals itself in little moments throughout the building, only noticeable to those who frequent the space. Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Revit.
DESIGN FOR INTEGRATION DESIGN FOR CHANGE
experiential collage working sketches
s henderson st
1. food hall with vendor stations
2. reception
3. commissary kitchen
4. bike storage
5. terrace 1
6. rainwater catchment and processing
7. teaching kitchen
8. teachers’ office
9. offices
10. conference room
11. classrooms
12. terrace 2
where there is not a direct path to a roof garden, rainwater drains to a cistern on the ground floor for to be stored for non-potable use
skylight has a light-colored shaft to increased reflection of sunlight to area below
rainwater can drain into the roof gardens to water plants
sectional axonometric detail of green roof
5-ply CLT panel
8.5” x 24” glu-lam beams
8.5” x 30” glu-lam beams
18” x 18” glu-lam columns
8”x 10” HSS steel braces, attached to timber columns, attached to base with gusset plate connections
54” x 24” x 96” concrete pile caps
18” diameter steel pipe piles
full sun: 6 or more hours of direct sun
part sun: 3-6 hours of direct sun
part shade: 3-6 hours with protection from mid-day sun
full shade: less than 3 hours
