Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio

Undergraduate Portfolio

KATHERINE UHRIN Auburn University Bachelor of Architecture Bachelor of Interior Architecture

Undergraduate Portfolio

KATHERINE UHRIN Auburn University Bachelor of Architecture Bachelor of Interior Architecture

SELECTED WORKS The following is a collection of work representing my architecture and interior architecture studies while attending Auburn University.

Thresholds Interior Architecture Foci Living in Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama Cascade Plunge Birmingham, Alabama Facades Birmingham, Alabama Activate Birmingham, Alabama Perceptual Social Experiment This is Not Art Urban Progression Birmingham, Alabama Micro - Social Birmingham, Alabama Bibliotheca for Ruins Rome, Italy Ways of Seeing Rome, Italy City Mills Columbus, Georgia Library Bibb City, Georgia Lake House Bibb City, Georgia Linear Piazza Trajan’s Forum, Rome, Italy Screen Charette Materials and Methods Facade Stitch Columbus, Georgia

Professional Work Christopher Architecture & Interiors

Resume

THRESHOLDS Proving Their Significance Interior Architecture Foci

The following body of work is two separate five week Interior Architecture studies. The studies took place in a smaller 5,000 square foot structure and a larger 52,000 square foot structure throughout the 10 week summer semester. Each student was to focus on a portion of each building for a non-profit organization, REV Birmingham, to give them ideas for the space. Their main goal is to ultimately create a Food Hub in the smaller building and a Dream Food Hub in the larger space. I focused on the importance of these spaces as transitional spaces that are inviting to the public and showcase their process and uniqueness to Birmingham.

This was done through the study of transitional space – or the in – between. In most cases, this space is thought of as strictly circulation and little design is put into play.

For instance, when one crosses a line between inside and outside of hallway and programmed space, they are typically doing so to get from point A to point B. Why can’t these be places for chance interaction, for rest, or for activity to occur? These types of spaces serve a very important purpose when designing any space. Substantial opportunities arise when one is on a transitional path, and these two projects strive to answer the question “What is in – between?”

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In this study, the in-between is an advertisement for the client.

Upon entering (shown above), local artisan’s and farmer’s goods are on display to be purchased by the visitors.

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A viewing box that changes every season is the central focus and is open for one to move from the dining to the retail space beyond. The learning bar is adjacent from the viewing box – focusing all on what is important here – the fresh food and education. The view from the loading/unloading zone (shown above) focuses on the customers to encourage the farmers to continue providing local, fresh food.

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THRESHOLDS Proving Their Significance

In this study, the in-between becomes an anchor between the client and the building. The hallway has the potential to be intriguing and full of life.

The existing space was only a corridor with doors and minimal natural light. This space aims to be the opposite with spaces for chance interactions, unexpected views and vibrant life. People are sure to come see what is happening. The idea is that the Dream Food Hub would start in this location and the hallway becomes the anchor that brings life back into the space and inspires people to start a market stand and, one day, a food hall full of local and fresh food.

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The in-between takes advantage of the exterior space by putting food truck traffic on display. Food trucks use this space for people to be able to sit down and have a nice meal. Businessmen/women who rent the space upstairs walk through this space throughout the day. By providing multiple uses at this location there are always people moving about and adding interest.

The space between inside and outside is now an anchor for people to gather and rest instead of only moving inside to outside mindlessly.

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LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham, Alabama

A look into my sketchbook Capturing details and experiences The following is a selection of sketches from my time spent in Birmingham, Alabama during my thesis studies.

These sketches were done for inspiration, personal interest and understanding the city.

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CASCADE PLUNGE Birmingham, Alabama

A Future Habitat For Humanity Development

What is Cascade Plunge?

Cascade Plunge Pool

Habitat for Humanity came to Urban Studio after acquiring a 17 acre site in East Lake, Birmingham, Alabama. They wanted a master plan and ideas to introduce forward thinking and urban housing typologies into their Birmingham work. Cascade Plunge means a lot to the community. They grew up coming here for for summer camps and recreation.

Our studio studied “How can we work to make this place good again?” because it has fallen into disrepair (see the far right image of the pool). We discovered many facts that would guide our group and individual projects the later half of the semester. This is project one of three for Habitat for Humanity and introduces the most important point Habitat is trying to produce in their work - significance.

The East Lake community formed as a result of a speculative venture by the East Lake Land Company, headed by Robert Jemison, Sr., who was the principle real estate executive and developer of Birmingham’s street railway system.

East Lake Park was originally built as an attraction for the East Lake Land Company (created by damming water from Roebuck Springs and Village Creek), and in the late 1880’s, street cars began bringing people to East Lake, which popularized the resort. The subdivision of East Lake began to grow, and the planners intended it to remain strictly a residential suburb and pleasure resort. The lots were kept to a modest size and the houses were built affordably.

Homeowners were required to improve their lots with ornamental paintings. East Lake Park would continue to grow in popularity, sporting a 150 room hotel, a zoo, a roller coaster and many more attractions. In 1910, East Lake was incorporated into the City of Birmingham and in 1917, the City of Birmingham purchased East Lake Park and declared it a public park, maintaining most of its attractions and adding some. In the late 1960s, I-59 was constructed, dividing the neighborhood. The neighborhood segregated into white and black and the neighborhood started to quickly decline.

Cascade Plunge Lounge

East Lake Park

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The “Cascade Plunge� was a large swimming pool surrounded by covered grandstands located at 6815 2nd Avenue South in East Lake. The privately owned pool opened in 1925. The pool was fed by a natural spring which cascaded from a tiered concrete fountain on the south east end. The 80 foot by 220 foot swimming pool was, at the time, the largest in the area and attracted people from all over Birmingham.

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Habitat for Humanity Studies Mixed Use Housing Methods

Sheridan Hollow Affiliate Habitat As Landlord

Birmingham’s Habitat For Humanity affiliate approached Auburn University’s Urban Studio to design a new master plan for their site. To keep costs low, Habitat planned to line the perimeter of the site with single family detached homes. They began to rethink their initial scheme after seeing our studio’s site analysis work and how important this site could be for the entire community. Other Habitat affiliates have created a more urban solution by forming partnerships with the city or business owners to provide multifamily complexes and/or commercial activity on their sites. Our master plans began to reflect these examples in hopes to create a more vibrant East Lake community.

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Master Plan Idea for Habitat For Humanity Urbanizing Cascade Plunge

Housing Commercial Habitat Organized

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U R BAN S T U D I O COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION

All preceding research and maps In collaboration with Urban Studio: Katherine Uhrin Chris Kay Krystal Duchene Heather Redrow Will Ready Sarah Wahlgren Henry Boyle Carson Legg Kyle Tressler Sharon Hughes Paige Sheehan Gil Humphries

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CASCADE PLUNGE Birmingham, Alabama Habitat for Humanity Group Master Plan In collaboration with Will Ready and Henry Boyle Goals:

Density Comparison Habitat’s Initial Plan 24 single family units

1. Create a community ammenity by unearthing the once vibrant natural spring and creating a link to the greater Red Rock Trail System.

2. Attract retail or commercial activity to the corner and link to the mixed use development happening to the east.

3. Create a denser housing typology near the busy streets (2nd Ave South) and provide single family homes more privacy toward the heavily canopied portion of the site.

Each member of the group chose a space on the site to develop an urban housing prototype for Habitat For Humanity to learn from. This is the portion of the site I chose to study.

The city partners with Habitat For Humanity to provide a community pavilion in this space. A Trail Head directs people into the site where they can enjoy the natural spring and natural tree canopy.

The roads purposefully end and lead one back to 2nd Ave South due to the steep untouched topography and the fact that 2nd Ave South is a main road that everyone has to take to get outside of this section of East Lake.

Density Comparison Group Master Plan 38 single family 60 multi family units 98 possible units

The corner of 2nd Ave South and 68th Street is important because of a bus stop and the potential for commerical activity. The neighborhood is in dire need of a place to gather, eat, or enjoy a cup of coffee. This location proves to be the best placement for mixed - use residential or a live - work arrangement.

The single family detached homes will be placed near the tree canopy to provide them more privacy from the active street front on 2nd Ave South.

These trail ends are deliberatly placed at this intersection for those who are walking to one of the nodes (as shown on the Proximity Analysis Map).

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CASCADE PLUNGE Birmingham, Alabama Habitat for Humanity Individual Housing Prototype Beginning with the floor plan opened up various possibilities as to how single family attached homes could create a stronger sense of ownership for each owner.

2 Bedroom Start Up Unit

Maximum Expansion Example

770 square feet conditioned space 2 bedrooms/1 bath

1120 square feet conditioned space Final expansion plan is up to each owner

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3 Bedroom Start Up Unit

Maximum Expansion Example

960 square feet conditioned space 3 bedroom/1 bath

1510 square feet conditioned space Final expansion plan is up to each owner

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By creating a more efficient plan upfront, this housing typology allows for future expansion and is structured to adapt to each owner’s habits and evolve with them and their families. The generous porch is structured to be built on in the future.

Attaching the homes creates nearly three times the amount of density on this particular lot and establishes a unique rhythm with solid (the homes) and voids (the porches) that the owners are encouraged to fill in once they establish themselves, have a larger family, etc.

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Entry Perspective Front Elevation

Possible Expansion Sketch

Central Courtyard Elevation

Community is enforced through pedestrian walkways that provide the quickest entry to one’s home and an opportunity for chance encounters.

This housing typology is not about the architect making a statement.

It is strictly about the homeowner’s ability to create self identity and dignity in a neighborhood that is lacking. For example, this homeowner only added a master bed and bath with a subtle box extruded from the existing home.

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Building Vicinity Plan Adjacent to waterway and Second Avenue South

The building materials were carefully chosen to blend in with the rest of East Lake, remain cost friendly and most importantly be subtle enough that each homeowner is able to add on to their home with any material. Brick is at the pedestrian’s eye level and grounds each home. Metal siding creates a wrapper over the brick and silently speaks to the community that this is a new housing typology, yet intends to blend in.

Great attention was paid to the placement of the units. Each plan’s location depended on each units adjacencies and the original plan was slightly manipulated to address the exterior. For example, the porches that front Second Avenue South address the street and pedestrian by providing a low wall and vegetation as a buffer between public and private (see elevation on left). Although the porch is considered private, it is open and inviting to the public and gives the homeowners presence and an opportunity to create a street presence. Furthermore, the units facing the public walkway have a window in front of the sink to view passersby (see section detail).

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FACADES Birmingham, Alabama Client driven projects Improving street presence The Roly Poly owner wanted to take advantage of his corner spot in downtown Birmingham. His main goal was to have a space that could be used year round. The exterior seating is currently surrounded by bars. The proposal is an interactive storefront with operable garage doors to use when the weather is ideal. The corner is captured with customers who are overflowing into the street and materials that are meant to bring one inside.

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FACADES

Birmingham, Alabama Client driven projects Improving street presence The owner of this building came to Urban Studio with various ideas. Her main idea was to maintain the existing language of the building (specifically the horizontal band). She desired to fit into the industrial context of Birmingham by using steel, metal and dark colors. The ground floor program is residence (left) and retail (right) and the second floor is a venue space. The existing language is maintained but updated. Removing the paint from the existing brick, updating the horizontal line with metal panels and capping the existing windows with new steel and glass sheets bring an industrial and new presence to 3rd avenue.

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ACTIVATE

Birmingham, Alabama Co - working space Activating Edges “Activate Birmingham” is a collection of moments within a larger network. It exists on the bottom two floors of an existing bank in downtown Birmingham. The promising location takes advantage of the entry floor and is open to people who desire to stop for a cup of coffee and view the possible art installation or lecture in the main space. The mezzanine’s edge is open to the workplace customers to rent workspace, interact at the group spaces, or rent a conference room for meetings. Overall, the space is inviting to the community and leads to unexpected meetings and discoveries. The remaining top two floors are for customers who desire a personal office and was not studied here.

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Look up and around and one is instantly anxious to be a part of this new co-working space.

Purposefully kept as an open floor, the people are encouraged to visit the coffee shop, sit down at the extra-large conference table, or simply pass through the space to the semi-private second level. The main furniture here is the Knoll K-Lounge poof and the Alvar Aalto stacking stool to supply moveable solutions to an ever-changing space.

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Inspiring as a relationship initiator and resilient space, the double height space is framed by two new walls, the edges of the public floor and the stair seating. One wall is for storage, the other provides seating along the main stair. The floor can hold up to seventy for a lecture or exhibit an artist’s work. The furniture selected here is the Knoll Toboggan Desk for those who wish to work here, and the stackable/outdoor Spark Series Side Chair for events and lectures. The red pixelated fabric is meant to inspire those in the workplace without being too distracting.

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Lecture Space Layout 70+/- seats (Spark series side chair)

Art Exhibit Layout 4 temporary walls

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Activating edges means that people are forced to walk down the center of the spaces. This encourages interaction in an otherwise silent work environment.

The second floor caters to those who are looking for a livelier workplace – the edges hold personal desks and group desks and the exterior faces are conference rooms to rent by the hour and a media chat room for online interviews.

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PERCEPTUAL SOCIAL EXPERIMENT This is Not Art Elements of Interior Architecture Studies In collaboration with Logan Thornton This is Not Art strives to create an experience that is different for each observer. Rather than acting as a surface or a piece of art, the installation immerses the viewer in an experience and asks them to question their idea of perception. The installation is purposefully detached from meaning. It asks one to focus through a collection of moments. At one single moment, one person is having a completely different experience than another person.

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Capturing Details

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8’ bench

7’ sidewalk

10’ drive lane

8’ parklet/parking 4’ bench 4’ plant

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8’ bench

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URBAN PROGRESSION Birmingham, Alabama Group in - depth study of downtown Birmingham Studio proposed development as the city grows This studio group project aims to bring life back to downtown Birmingham, Alabama. After visiting and researching we agreed that there was a lot of potential – Railroad Park, proposed residential development and the new Barons baseball stadium.

Our studio worked together to propose innovative solutions to bring people here to visit and hopefully live. The existing infrastructure and structures are represented in brown, and the proposed plan is represented in white. Along with the proposed development and programming of blocks, I drew diagrams of street sections that would benefit in places like the proposed entertainment district due east of the baseball stadium. For example, giving less room to cars, planting trees, providing café seating and good sidewalks would make this a more desirable location for visitors and residents in the future.

In collaboration with: Katherine Uhrin Micah Martin Carson Legg Heather Redrow Abby Katsoulis Libby So Krystal Duchene Timothy Wang Jack Bigbie Timothy Fuerst Katherine Lynch Heather Crabtree JP Alexander Saxon Gibbs Kelly Walheim 46

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MICRO - SOCIAL Birmingham, Alabama Small social units within a larger social system Assisted/Independent Living Facility

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Responding to the surrounding urban context the design works to connect the elderly to an active streetscape. The community is also encouraged to interact with the facility, serving as a link on 17th street between the newly developed Railroad Park and the hospital district. Double and single loaded corridors rise from the street level to break down the scale of the four hundred foot facade and attract smaller social units to congregate on each level.

The bars of housing complement the parking facade directly across the street while directing views inward to the semi-private and public spaces. The ground floor deliberately shifts, forming a generous public entertainment space, semi - private courtyards, and a garden. The edges of the complex liven up the streets with retail and a linear park to welcome others in and provides a barrier of greenery for the patients at the Children’s of Alabama Pediatric Endocrinology Center.

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The site responds to 17th street and becomes a link between Railroad Park and the Children’s Hospital. This road is under planning by the City of Birmingham to become a pedestrian road to link visitors and residents along these two anchor points. The living facility will benefit from this through a street presence.

Design Ideas - Voids to break up facade - Activate 400 foot circulation bar - Views and light for each inhabitant - Link Railroad Park to medical district - Activate ground floor and streets - Smaller scale bars of living - Public and private zones - Entertainment and community

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The ground floor plan restores street life on 4th avenue south and 16th / 17th streets by delivering moments of repose with areas to gather and rest. The retail draws people into the entertainment space created within. The linear park provides a fast channel through the site, or a gradual interaction, inviting the public and families in. In conclusion, the elderly are entirely linked with the community.

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The typical floor plan activates the circulation bar, revealing game rooms, media spaces, balconies, a large activity space and lounge areas. The plan encourages interaction among the inhabitants.

Breaking the scale of the building into four bars forms micro - communities within a larger social structure.

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ADA Room Plan Study

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Sectional voids enhance the quality of light and provide multiple views throughout the complex and a communal presence for the elderly.

Section through a one bedroom living space adjacent to the garden and linear park.

The units provide an enhanced quality of light and enhances the views beyond.

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The view from the exit of the Children’s Endocrinology Center across 4th Avenue South onto the public entertainment space in front of the living facility. The children and elderly have direct contact with one another and provide one another visual company.

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Upon studying the material palette in downtown Birmingham (see below) the selection was made to maintain a similar language with brick and metals to complement the industrial city. The skin of the building is brick, and aluminum windows extrude and give a unique rhythm to the various facades. The height of the window shelf is intentionally at eye level when one is sitting down to give the room a more intimate feel. The aluminum canopy extends onto the walkway to guide one into the building.

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BIBLIOTHECA FOR RUINS Rome, Italy Adapting modern architecture to ancient extremes 2 week design proposal in Trajan’s Market and Forum Our time spent in Italy consisted of drawing everything and studying everything we saw. Emerging in a culture is the best way to learn. We concluded our study abroad by understanding the palimpsest, or peeled back layers that make up the ancient city. Responding to the surrounding urban context and Roman ruins the design is inspired from the array of levels on the site. The library becomes a display for the ruins. Gently hovering above the ruins, the book stacks promote the importance of saving the city’s history.

They also act as a continuation of the adjacent facades, complimenting the neighborhood of Monti. The library takes the stance for one to be able to read the ruins, remaining visible yet quiet and respectful of the site.

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Analytical board one displays the gentle hover of the library over the ruins. The main entry invites one to look below before entering a unique space devoted to the palimpsest below.

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Analytical board two displays the stacks hovering over the site. The site plan emerges and is grounded by a street elevation and an elevation from Trajan’s Market and Forum.

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WAYS OF SEEING Rome, Italy Excerpts from Rome sketchbook

Campidoglio Hill

Piazza del Popolo

Piazza del Popolo ‘blind contour’

San Carlo alle Quattro F Fontane

St. P Peter’s Square and the Papal Procession

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CITY MILLS Columbus, Georgia Revovation of an existing textile mill Kayak Recreation Center, Cafe, Youth Hostel The City Mills design proposes engagement between the visitors and community through the use of various circulation spaces constructed from the existing wooden beams and modern rigid board formed concrete. These spaces create multifunctional areas for viewing activities and become areas for educational opportunities. The addition integrates the existing building with the new movement occurring throughout the interior and exterior. The subtle sway of the facade promotes human interaction and provides a lightness to the rigidness of the brick as well as strikes shadow to highlight the existing building.

Kayak Recreation Center Interior/Exterior Education Space Cafe and Bakery Youth Hostel Check - In and Communal Space

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The cafe addition and entry overlook the kayak education space and the Chattahoochee River. The kayak recreation center addition hugs the existing structure and ramps down to the river entry. The section shows the circulation spaces relationship to the additions. They are light versus the heaviness of the existing brick.

The main entry floor plan includes the cafe and kayak recreation center. The entry is open to the kayak education classroom below to liven up the space.

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The left displays images of the current condition of the textile mill. Below is a study model showing how the additions create interaction between exterior and interior, linking the old and the new and bringing the community in.

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LIBRARY Bibb City, Georgia The proposal for the Bibb City Library is to create simple volumes to physically distinguish the active, quiet, and circulation spaces.

The wooden beams intertwine all of these spaces. The main beams celebrate movement throughout the library and the gathering of community. The exterior space consequently links the spaces so the inhabitants can visually interact. The siting strategy is to make a connection between the other public buildings in the neighborhood. Creating a strong east west axis through the building and a link between the neighborhood and the river walk.

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The design begins with two main volumes to separate the active and quiet spaces.

The exterior courtyard visually connects the children’s area and computer room with the main library.

The study of glu-lam beams is used as a technique to physically connect the active and quiet spaces.

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The children’s area and computer room, also known as the active volume, is angled with regulating lines from the streets to create an inviting exterior space.

The main library space, the quiet volume, is parallel to the street in order to relate to the existing homes in the neighborhood.

The main beams lengthen to the floor creating a main circulation area, a double height entry space and a separation between the active and quiet volumes.

The secondary set of beams emerge to create a more intimate space for reading on the quiet side of the library.

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The site plan shows the library’s connection to the existing neighborhood and river walk. The computer room overlooks the communal courtyard. The public meeting space is celebrated by the beams and overlooks the double height entry space and the neighborhood. The children’s library also looks out onto the courtyard. It is physically separated from the quieter section of the library and study spaces and linked together by the entry and gallery space.

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Staff Offices / Gallery

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The circulation space separates the active and quiet spaces. The main beams celebrate the double height entry space and promote interaction. The smaller set of beams emphasize the importance of the quiet space, blocking the rest of the library off and framing a view to the river. The scale of the building strives to relate to the existing neighborhood. It creates a subtle presence to bring new life into the area and link the public river walk to the neighborhood.

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The public courtyard serves the existing neighborhood by providing a gathering space that did not exist before the library. A strong section links the neighborhood to the river walk.

Views throughout the library enforce this connection and encourage people to meet one another.

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LAKE HOUSE Bibb City, Georgia The lake house is sited on an extremely steep slope.

The design takes advantage of this slope and creates a unique entry. With a direct view to the river, one enters and may choose to stay on the main public level or go below to the private quarters. The unique personality of this home invites people to congregate, provides panoramic views of the river, and flows easily down the steep slope, becoming one with the terrain.

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The primary focus of this residence is a circulation system to provide more than just movement throughout.

The circulation becomes part of the main entry of the home, is interactive, separates the public from private and provides a direct view to the river and a large entertainment space for the inhabitants to enjoy.

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The public level is the entry level.

Upon entering, the kitchen is to the left, and the living areas are to the right. With a direct view to the river below, one may choose to stay on this level or go downstairs to the private quarters. The connection from the street level to the river is shown in section.

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LINEAR PIAZZA Trajan’s Forum, Rome, Italy Column : From Object to City In collaboration with Andrew Schalk The design proposal for the Linear Piazza in Trajan’s Forum is to address circulation, accessibility, perimeters, and continuity within an extremely historical area of Rome. Today, Trajan’s column is simply an object in space. Originally it was surrounded by two libraries and embedded within a complex program of buildings which formed the Forum of Trajan. Our design solution is to reorient the pedestrian traffic off of Foro Imperiale, currently loaded with traffic, and direct the people into the historical site. A fast track and an experiential track through the site is proposed. The fast track is angled with historic references and designed to follow the existing Via Alessandria and get one through the site quickly. The experiential track also follows historical references and ramps up and down, hovering over the most important sections of the Forum.

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SCREEN CHARETTE Materials and Methods In collaboration with Krystal Duchene, Josh Banks Responsible for elevation shown above The screen that is to be constructed between two structures before what is currently a driveway. The new space is intended to serve two functions, an experimentation and fabrication yard for the resident of the house who is a sculptor of multiple scaled wood art pieces. Secondly, it serves as a sculpture garden and entertaining space when it is not being used for work. The proposal is to create a stretched wood screen to highlight the sculptures. The permeable paving plan relates to the screen, stretching open where sculpture is to be place and viewed directly from the screen openings.

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FACADE STITCH Columbus, Georgia Personal elevation drawing As a studio, we were each required to investigate and measure a twenty-six foot section of Broadway Street in Columbus, Georgia. After collecting the measurements we individually hand drafted our portion, collaborating with adjacent student’s portions to stitch all of the drawings together for a final elevation. The final conclusion gave us a better understanding of the street as a whole, enabling us to begin a project in the city.

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“Treehouse� Construction Documents Project Architect: Scott Carlisle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Christopher Architecture and Interiors Birmingham, Alabama The following body of work was completed during my time at Christopher Architecture and Interiors - a full service architecture and interior design firm in Birmingham, Alabama.

During my time there I worked seamlessly between architects and interior designers during all design phases for various high end, custom residential projects.

Image Credit: Scott Carlisle

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Completed Builder’s Pricing Set Project Architect: Scott Carlisle

Christopher Architecture and Interiors Birmingham, Alabama

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Credit for Elevations: Brannon Foster

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Existing Drawings and Demolition Plan Project Architect: Scott Carlisle Interior Designer: Joanna Goodman

Christopher Architecture and Interiors Birmingham, Alabama

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Interior Renovations and Additions Project Architect: Scott Carlisle Interior Designer: Joanna Goodman

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KATHERINE UHRIN 283 Willow Cove Road Oxford, Alabama 36203

katherinemu@live.com 256.239.0494

EDUCATION Auburn University - Auburn, Alabama School of Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture, expected May 7, 2016 School of Architecture, Bachelor of Interior Architecture, expected May 7, 2016 Rome Study Abroad Program Auburn Urban Studio Program GPA - 3.8

August 2011 - May 2016 January - May 2014 August 2015 - May 2016

Recognition Fourth Year Interior Architecture Studio Book Award May 2015 Roger W. Rindt Memorial Scholarship May 2015 College of Architecture Portfolio Competition Honorable Mention January 2015 Alabama Gas Company Design Competition Honorable Mention December 2014 George McCraith, Jr. Endowed Scholarship May 2014 Third Year Interior Architecture Studio Book Award May 2014 Alabama Concrete Industries Association Concrete Competition Honorable Mention December 2013 Second Year Architecture Studio Book Award May 2013 Friends of Will Sturgis Scholarship May 2013 Alabama Home Builders Foundation Scholarship 2011 - 2015 Auburn University Leadership Scholarship August 2011 - May 2015 Dean’s List August 2011 - Present Leadership Involvement ACE Mentor Program of America :: Alabama College of Architecture, Design, and Construction Student Ambassador AIAS South Quad Fund-raising Chair AIAS Pumpkin Carve Co-Chair AIAS Freshman Representative AIAS Pumpkin Carve Community Service Honor Award AIAS Pumpkin Carve Committee Oxford High School - Oxford, Alabama Advanced Diploma with Honors GPA - 3.97

August 2015 - Present August 2014 - Present January - October 2013 August - October 2013 August 2011 - May 2012 October 2011 August - October 2011 August 2007 - May 2011

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Christopher Architecture & Interiors - Birmingham, Alabama Intern Architect - Seamlessly collaborated between architects and interior designers during all design phases for multiple residential projects. Main responsibilities included design development, construction details, existing measurements for renovations, and a complete builder’s pricing set.

October 2015 - January 2016

Heery International, Inc. - Atlanta, Georgia Intern Architect - Responsible for construction document submittals, interior elevations, interior material specifications and selections, and client presentation materials for healthcare projects.

May - August 2014

Active NCARB Record Holder SKILLS Studying for LEED-GA Exam.

Proficient in SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite, and AutoCAD. Proficient in hand modeling, rendering, sketching, and drafting.

Working knowledge in Revit.

Advanced communication and presentation skills.

Very organized and self-motivated.

Basic Italian.

REFERENCES Steve Hart - Heery International Vice President Kevin Moore - Auburn University Professor of Interior Architecture Chris Reebals - Christopher Architecture and Interiors President

WHart@heery.com / 404.946.2138 khm0002@auburn.edu / 334.844.5545 chris@christopherai.com / 205.413.8531

THANK YOU