KATHERINE SCHUFF
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Fall 2010 - Apartments and Dance Studio
FOURTH FLOOR PLAN INT. ELEVATION - OWNER
OUTDOOR SPACES
THIRD FLOOR PLAN OWNER’S KITCHEN PERSPECTIVE
PROGRAM
INT. ELEVATION - RENTAL SECOND FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SITE PLAN
DIAMOND STREET RESIDENCE
Located on South Diamond Street in the Warehouse District of New Orleans, this project called for a long, narrow building housing two residential units and a ground floor commercial space. In addition to a flexible commercial space, an important aspect of the project was the creation of outdoor spaces for each occupant of the building.
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The commercial space in my building is a dance studio, and the two sides of the building wrap around an interior courtyard to allow light to enter without giving the appearance of two entirely separate pieces. The wrapping of spaces also occurs within the building’s interior through multi-level rooms, balconies, exterior courtyards, and an area of the rental unit in which separate rooms step up by half stories to create a series of roof terraces.
LATIN CENTER:
THE STREET
Spring 2011 - Graduate Housing and Museum
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The Latin Center project involved the design of an off campus residence for both graduate students and visiting scholars of Latin American studies. In addition, the building was to include a library and public gallery for a collection of pre-Colombian art. The intention of the building is to promote interaction between the graduate students and to allow the program to have direct engagement with the city of New Orleans.
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Ground Floor Plan 3/32"=1'
There were very specific requirements for the design regarding the types of artifacts to be displayed in the museum as well as the layout of the scholars’ rooms. These rooms were to include both a studying and a sleeping space, and the scholars were to be given direct access to the museum area. Additionally, at least 25% of the site was required to be open to the sky. For my design, I started out with a simple cube and pulled each of the sides apart to reveal interlocking facades. This action also created both a large interior courtyard and several balcony areas on each floor.
THE STREET Outdoor Spaces (Second Floor)
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ELEVATION EastEAST Elevation 3/32"=1'
FRERET FreretELEVATION Elevation
Rather than continuing each balcony from the courtyard to the exterior face of the building, I instead added interior areas to one side of most of them. This allows occupants of the building to cross the space without being required to go outdoors. Setting each of these areas back from the main exterior face of the building preserves the interlocking appearance of the facade. However, because these interior spaces vary in placement, one can experience the view from each side of the building as well as into the courtyard by accessing different balconies.
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South SOUTHElevation ELEVATION 3/32"=1'
FRERET Freret SECTION Section 3/32” 3/32”==1’1’
SONIAT SoniatELEVATION Elevation
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Library
Storage
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Faculty Living
Laundry
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Mech./ Storage/ Custodian
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Members' Room Study/TV Lounge
Office
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Third THIRD Floor FLOOR
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OUTDOOR EDUCATION FACILITY:
THE HORIZON Spring 2011 - Five Weeks
THE HORIZON
The objective of this project was to design an Outdoor Leadership Education Facility in the cold climate of Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine. This facility would serve as place for users to transition between civilization and the wilderness as they embark upon training courses in group dynamics and wilderness skills. The large site has a considerable slope and is wooded with a river running throughout. The project explores the relationship of building and landscape while working with the constraints of slope and climate.
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PROGRAM Community Private Spiritual/Educational
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
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My design centers around a series of wooden platforms. These wrap around a central platform, meant for fireside gatherings, as they make their way down the slope. Each of the three main platforms serves a different programmatic function - eating and living, sleeping and bathing, and learning and meditating - and therefore is meant for a different level of privacy.
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
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In addition to the main series of platforms, the roofs of the major rooms are also accessible. Because the roof of the first building is actually at ground level (due to the slope of the site), it is possible to walk in a straight line from the stepping platforms at the top of the site to those at the bottom, crossing over each roof platform on the way. These roof platforms also offer outdoor dining and gathering spaces, as well as direct access to the lower levels through the numerous “towers� that house cabins, storage, and a meditation room.
After the first iteration of my design , I realized that there was a surplus of deck space on the upper platforms that would likely not be utilized. In addition, these thick roofs left the outdoor space below quite dark, a condition not favorable for the cold Maine climate. As a result, I opened up the platforms by transforming unnecessary roof space into trellises. This allows light to filter down to the areas below but still retains the visual appearance of the three rectangular platforms.
FRENCH QUARTER PUBLIC
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Fall 2011 - Three Months
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For this project I designed a public library to be located on the corner of Chartres and Toulouse Streets, in New Orleans’ French Quarter neighborhood. The basic shape of my design is a long L that wraps along the back edges of the site and then doubles back upon itself, forming an interior courtyard surrounded on all sides by 30’ wide spaces. Two of the most public spaces, a meeting area and an exhibit space, are split apart from the main building. This creates a path from one street, through the main exterior courtyard, and back out to the other street, inviting people to enter the building as they pass through.
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SITE PLAN
ELEVATION STUDIES
While the first floor contains more public areas such as a media center, periodicals, and a café, the second and third floors contain mainly book stacks. The L shapes of these floors extend further to rest on the separated first floor buildings, which also elongates the interior courtyard on the third floor. With this extra space on the top floor and a bridge spanning the courtyard on the second floor, each floor contains an occupiable area in the more isolated inner courtyard.
TOULOUSE ELEVATION
Service spaces and offices are mainly compacted into bars along the building’s two parti-walls. The library’s reading spaces, however, are extruded out of the second and third floors. The reading spaces are small boxes of varying sizes and are located at various heights; some are indoor spaces while others are outdoor balcony gardens.
The majority of the building is constructed of sitecast concrete walls and precast hollow core concrete slabs. The reading room boxes, however, are constructed with hollow steel structural tubes clad in concrete sheathing and can be prefabricated and bolted to the façade of the building.
Silicone Sealant Laminated Safety Glass Cavity Steel Channel Section Glass Fin, Laminated Safety Glass Exterior Concrete Sheathing Waterproof Membrane Exterior Plywood Insulation Light Gauge Steel Studs Cement Board Plaster Board
8”x8” Hollow Steel Structural Tube Exterior Concrete Sheathing Waterproof Membrane Plywood Insulation Gypsum Wall Board w/Plaster Studs Glass Cavity
Section Detail: Glass/Reading Room Connection 1 1/2” = 1’ -0”
Surrounding the reading spaces is an enclosed area of green glass, supported by steel channel sections with glass fins and steel support members. Sunlight filters through the glass and the clerestory windows in the main walls to provide indirect light to the bookstacks, while the reading spaces receive direct light in their positions along the building’s edges. In addition, the area within the green glass provides extra space for mechanical systems.
Green was chosen as the color of the glass because it is a restful yet lively color and it also symbolizes balance, growth, well-being, and learning. In addition, psychologically the color green calms and balances the emotions: all excellent qualities for a library.
CHARTRES ELEVATION
NEW ORLEANS
CULINARY ARTS INSTITUTE Spring 2012 - Four Months
CULINARY ARTS INSTITUTE
The Culinary Arts Institute, located in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, is primarily composed of five bars that cross the long, narrow lot. The three inner bars are set back to create courtyard spaces on the ground floor, which also contains the most public parts of the program. On the lot’s corner, facing historic Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, is a restaurant, with adjoining wine room and courtyard, while the bake shop (with outdoor seating area), admissions office, and demonstration kitchen are located on St. Andrews Street. Another large courtyard on the back side of the building leads directly to the large community garden beside the college.
Program Organization
MECHANICAL SYSTEMS Vertical Circulation Mechanical/Service
PROGRAM ORGANIZATION
Lobby/Hallways Kitchens Public Food Service Central Lobby Space
Administration Public Educational Private Educational
Circulation CIRCULATION (Third Floor) (3RD FLOOR)
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Circulation is arranged along the back of the building, with a central core of vertical circulation and restrooms, corridors extending to the sides, and fire stairs at each end. Mechanical systems are located along the less animated Danneel Street.
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Circulation Paths (First Floor) Main Entrance/Exits Exit/Courtyard Paths Vertical Circulation Access Other Circulation Paths
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Detailed Wall Section Axonometric
Roofing Membrane over Rigid Insulation 3” Concrete Fill 2” Steel Decking 2’ Deep Open Web Steel Joists Suspended Ceiling
Steel Studs
HVAC Branch Duct
Bolt Plates Securing Curtain Wall and Screens
Recessed Fluorescent Lighting
Joist/Column and Joist/Joist Girder Connection
Bris Soleil Screen Glass Curtain Wall
Exterior Cladding 8”x1’ Aluminum Panels
Balcony Section
Panel Fasteners Metal Stud Wall Gypsum Board Sheathing Steel Cables for Vines
Constructed with a system of steel columns, openweb joists, and joist girders, the Institute is clad in a combination of steel panels with punched openings and glass curtain walls. Hanging in front of the curtain walls is a brise soleil shading system, and the dimensions of both the steel panels and the individual units of the brise soleil vary depending on the amount of light and privacy needed in a room. Rooms such as the classrooms and boiler room have smaller openings, while the lobby and teaching kitchens have large ones.
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ST. ANDREW’S ELEVATION ST. ANDREW’S ELEVATION
O.C. HALEY ELEVATION O.C. HALEY ELEVATION
The 2nd and 3rd floors of the culinary institute contain more educational parts of the program that would still be available to the general public: an upper viewing area for the double height demo kitchen, a double height lecture hall, balconies overlooking the ground floor lobby, the library, student lounge, classrooms, faculty spaces, and a double height teaching kitchen available for more casual, public cooking classes. The 4th floor is the most private, with the pastry kitchen and the remainder of the teaching kitchens to be utilized by students enrolled in the school.
FAN ROOM
STAFF ROOM
TEACHING KITCHEN
FAN ROOM
PASTRY KITCHEN
FOOD STORAGE
FACULTY AREA
CAREER SERVICES
TEACHING KITCHEN
DIRECTOR’S SUITE
CLASSROOM
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RESTROOM
RESTROOM
RESTROOM
STUDENT LOUNGE
TEACHING KITCHEN
RESTROOM
CLASSROOM RESTROOM
TEACHING KITCHEN
LECTURE HALL CIRCULATION DESK
LIBRARY
PERIODICALS
TEACHING KITCHEN
TEACHING KITCHEN
There are three balcony areas on the building: one on the 2nd floor overlooking the restaurant courtyard, two on the O.C. Haley/St. Andrews corner that lead off of the lecture hall and library, and two on the Danneel façade that are accessed from the public teaching kitchen and staff room. Each of these is surrounded by a system of steel cables on which vines grow, creating green boxes that allow outdoor access while preserving the building’s basic form.
SAN LORENZO CENTER FOR THE ARTS
URBAN COLLECTOR Fall 2012 - Two Months
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The final assignment of the semester abroad in Rome involved the design of a building in the neighborhood of San Lorenzo, to include a housing component and public space that would connect with the surrounding community. After analyzing the existing program surrounding the site, I decided to create an arts center that would unify the numerous arts venues scattered throughout the neighborhood. This is achieved with a collection of small buildings at ground level, each housing a diff erent arts discipline, connected by intersecting bars on the fl oors above.
CIRCULATION
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PROGRAM VISUAL ARTS THEATER/FILM LITERATURE OPEN TO SKY MUSIC AND DANCE COVER 2 STORIES ABOVE MULTIPURPOSE/HOUSING
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OPEN TO SKY COVER 2 STORIES ABOVE
The site slopes gradually downward from the western corner to the east, and by carving out the site along this contour a number of outdoor rooms are created in the spaces between the buildings. Ground fl oor buildings catering to literature, theater, art, music, and dance are supplemented by an outdoor ampitheater, reading area, classroom space, piazza/ cafe, and two outdoor art galleries on various levels, connected by a series of ramps and stairs. Inside of the buildings, pubiic functions such as a library, two theaters, an art gallery, and studios for courses in each discipline are housed. The central building also contains a lobby where information about events around the community can be found.
CULTURAL VENUES IN SAN LORENZO THEATER/CINEMA
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LITERATURE VISUAL ARTS MUSIC DANCE OTHER
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VIEW FROM LOBBY
LITERATURE LOUNGE
PROGRAM
COVER 2 STORIES ABOVE COVER 4 STORIES ABOVE
PROGRAM LIVE WORK EXCHANGE
CIRCULATION
NORTH ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION
Circulation is straightforward: at the intersections of the horizontal bars vertical circulaition nodes connect all levels of the project. The third and fourth floors are composed of a literature, theater, and music/dance bar, each containing classrooms, studios, and practice rooms. A double height lounge is located at each node and there are a number of double height studios. There is access to the exterior from the third and fifth floors, where rooftops connect the bars as well as the different disciplines. The crisscrossing bars also provide varying levels of sunlight and shadow to the public spaces below.
LITERATURE LOUNGE
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
FOURTH FLOOR PLAN
SECTION B
SECTION A
LIBRARY AND MUSIC/DANCE BUILDING
The fifth and sixth floors contain one and two bedroom apartments for artists, the sixth floor including attached studios of varying sizes. There is again access to the rooftops, as well as individual balconies for each unit. The project is meant to encourage community involvement in the arts, with practice spaces and studios for accomplished artists as well as public exhibition spaces and classes for the general community. This draws professional artists to San Lorenzo but also offers something for everyone.
FIFTH FLOOR PLAN
VIEW FROM ART BUILDING
HOUSING UNITS 1/32” 1/16”==1’-0” 1’ 0” ONE AND TWO BEDROOM APARTMENTS WITH 250, 500, OR 750 SQ. FT. ART STUDIOS ATTACHED
HOUSING UNITS 1/16” = 1’-0”
SIXTH FLOOR PLAN
ROME, ITALY; VENICE, FLORENCE, POMPEII, BARCELONA
URBAN DRAWING Fall 2012
MPS/M.ARCH STUDIO II:
ST. ANN STREET, TREME Spring 2013 - 3 Months
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The St. Ann St. project was a group effort and the main focus of the Urban Conservation studio, composed of both preservation and architecture students. There were two components to the project: recommendations for the renovation of the historic Treme Market Branch bank building as well as a proposal for the revitalization of the two adjacent blocks of St. Ann Street, a representative, semi-blighted section of the historic New Orleans neighborhood of Treme.
PRACTICE SPACE FOR MARDI GRAS INDIANS
Working with a local architect, we assisted the couple who had recently purchased the bank building, which was constructed in 1905 and abandoned in the 1990’s. In addition to researching, documenting, and making recommendations for its physical conservation, we also suggested potential uses for the building and formed a series of floor plans and rendered drawings depicting possible interior renovations to help achieve these goals. I personally contributed the possible use sections, shown at left.
CLAIBORNE STREET ELEVATION
ST. ANN STREET ELEVATION
ST. ANN STREET, TREME
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As it provided more architectural opportunity, I focused more on the ST. ANN STREET St. Ann Street portion of the projPROPOSAL: Phase 1 ect. Drawing from the area’s rich history, we proposed a gradual, four-phase plan that builds upon the existing fabric and introduces vital amenities to bring back the dense, vital commercial corridor in a neighborhood that has seen serious decline since the 1960’s. We also researched the area and made preservation recommendations for the existing buildings.
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ST. ANN STREET: FINAL PROPOSAL
In addition to improvements to existing properties, we also proposed a number of uses for empty lots and buildings. These include a daycare, outdoor restaurant seating, new residences, a candy shop, and an outdoor market. Though we worked on the project as a group, tasks I personally completed included streetscape photomerges (above), an example of the Italianate Townhouse architectural style (opposite page), rental property design, and phase proposal drawings (partly shown here).
PARCEL & MAIL SERVICE (PHASE FOUR, RENOV.)
RENTAL PROPERTY (PHASE FOUR, NEW CONSTR.)