Architecture Portfolio Digba Cedric Katchia 3rd Year Student katchiacedric@hotmail.fr
CONTENTS
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ARCHIVE FOR COFFEE AND TEA
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EXPERIMENTAL THEATER
3
UNIVERSITY OF LAFAYETTE
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UNIVERSITY OF LAFAYETTE
LABORATORY SCHOOL COMPETITION
LABORATORY SCHOOL
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MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM
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TECTONIC STUDY
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HAND DRAWINGS
ARCHIVE FOR COFFEE AND TEA Arch 235 Spring 2019 Wei Zhao
Researched on the production process of cofee and tea and their cultural importance through out the world in order to design an institution that will instill ideas surrounding coffee and tea rituals in the visitor expeence. Building will provide educational opportunities to the public, research opportunities to scholars and promote and grow the study of tea and coffee and their cultural, hist orical,political and social significance.
SECTIONAL MODEL 1’-0” = 1/8”
EXPERIMENTAL THEATER Arch 225 Winter 2019 William Hartman
The design process consisted in making a conceptual object that embobies the words “geometric” and “hierarchical”. The interactive artifact directed the design decisions for the the experimental theater, its interaction with the light and the shadow it casts.
The conceptual object is an ivestigation of light and shadow relationships. It focuses on hierarchy of geometric volumes, the shadow that bigger volumes cast on smaller ones, and the shades on different surfaces.
UNIVERSITY OF LAFAYETTE LABORATORY SCHOOL COMPETITION Arch 315 Group Project Fall 2019 Brad Deal
DUCTIVE LOBBY
Open space faculty/students meeting
Study area
Study booth
Study area
The project is a competition entry for
n a difbles for
the University of Lafayette, who asked
al space that is divided into three areas, each one being on aus difasked to design three learning spacel: a relaxing area with couhes, a study area with flexible tables for herings, and an area with study booths for more privacy. es. It was a group project and I had to Relaxing area
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UNIVERSITY OF LAFAYETTE LABORATORY SCHOOL
Arch 315 Fall 2019 Brad Deal
work on a “productive lobby”.
CHRIS YANKO
This lobby serves as a transitional space between classes. It is divided into three
Relaxing area
areas that are used for different purposes. A relaxing area, a study area for group meetings, and a private area for teacher-student meetings.
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CHRIS YANKO
The main focus of this project is to design a laboratory school that will welcome children aged 6 to 12 and is organized into two learning houses (K to 2nd grade and 3rd to 5th grade). The school focuses on hands-on experience through project based teaching methods and the building provides lots of natural ights and visual access to other spaces as to convey a feeling of inclusion and enhance students’ productivity. Flexibility has been one of the main design
Section AA
goals and influenced the use of hexagonal spaces. Section BB
PHYSICAL MODEL 1’-0” = 1/32”
MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM
Arch 325 Group Project Winter 2020 Dr Pasquale De Paola
SECOND FLOOR PLAN 1’-0” = 1/16” SECOND FLOOR
The Mississippi River Museum is the product of research and interpretation of the history of the Mississippi river, especially all its different courses over time. The building formally mimics the overlapping torrents of rivers. Also, the building’s form imitates the phenomenon of erosion: the ground and second floors are flown away from the third floor while the building looks eroded by the highway and train tracks that run underneath. I worked on the form, the floor plans, the sections, the occupation load and areas, and took the pictures before handing them over for rendering. SECTION CC 1’-0” = 1/16”
SECTION DD 1’-0” = 1/16”
STRUTCURAL MODEL 1’-0” = 1/16”
TECTONIC STUDY
Arch 325 Group Project Winter 2020 Dr Pasquale De Paola
Heart Herning
This assignment con-
Steven Holl Architects
sisted in graphically
The design fuses landscape and architecture in a one-level building that will include permanent and temporary exhibition galleries, a 150-seat auditorium, music rehearsal rooms, a restaurant, a media library, administrative offices and an active landscape. Herning’s prominent relationship with textiles and art formed the inspiration for the design concept. This 1960s building was designed in the form of a shirt collar. It was the interaction between the factory owner and Arte Povera artists such as Piero Manzoni that enabled such a special collection of art to exist in Herning." A fabric theme is carried throughout the project from the shape of the building which resembles a collection of shirtsleeves viewed from above, through the wall finishes. Fabric tarps were inserted into the formwork to yield a fabric texture to the buildings exterior walls of white concrete.
Museum of Contemporary Art Herning, Denmark
Digba Katchia Chris Yanko Arch 325
Plastic sealing layer
and diagrammatically
Mineral wool thermal insulation Corrugated metal
Translucent glazing
Translucent thermal insulation
Bent steel sheet
a precedent, explore its 2D and 3D qualities and
Sound absorbing plasterboard
Double glazing
Concrete
Mineral wool
study a wall section of
Heating and cool tube
finally build a model of it to better understand
Grating
Drainage system
its tectonic and material logic.
Translucent glass
White concrete
HAND DRAWINGS
EDUCATION
DIGBA CEDRIC KATCHIA
318.497.9054
2017 - present Louisiana Tech University Bachelor of Science, Architectural Studies
TECHNICAL SKILLS AutoCAD Microsoft Excel Rhino Microsoft Word Lumion Drawing Adobe Photoshop Sketches Model Making Adobe InDesign
katchiacedric@hotmail.fr
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Fitness Staff 2019 Assissted gym members with equipment set-up and use, and enforced the gym’s rules.
SKILLS & INTERESTS Architecture Soccer Art Workout Music Movies Drawing NOMAS Bilingual (French & English)