Architecture Portfolio and CV

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

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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)