Kayla Rinoski 2024 Selected works portfolio

KAYLA RINOSKI SELECTED WORKS 2024

Tech’s Treehouse

Georgia Tech Welcome Center Howard Werheimer Atlanta, Ga

Garden Gables Eco-village & Co-housing Heather Potts Atlanta, Ga

Embrace The Escape

Interior City Block Redesign Mark Cottle Barcelona, Spain

Connect

Affordable Housing Ryan Roark Atlanta, Ga

Retreat

Meditation and Pool Spa Harris Dimitropoulos Lithia Springs, Ga

Puzzle

Challenging Spaces Mark Cottle Theoretical

The Modulator

Spatial Exploration Howard Werheimer Theoretical

Ways of Seeing Sketch Series

Helen Fialkowski Barcelona, Spain

Revit

Detailed Drawings Various work experiences

Tech Tower

Bobby Dodd Stadium

TECH’S TREEHOUSE

Swann Building ESM Building

A welcome center focusing on connecting campus through a series of green spaces

Aerospace Building

ACADEMIC YEAR Fall 2023 LEVEL

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Hilton Alumni House

Advanced 1 INSTRUCTOR Howard Wertheimer werth@gatech.edu LOCATION Atlanta, Ga

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The Georgia Tech Welcome Center, an educational sustainable proposal, strategically enhances the campus’s southern part. Rooted in a conscientious approach, the project follows the AIA Design framework for excellence and aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, marking a commitment to global sustainability standards. Considering existing site lines and historical context, the proposal integrates green spaces for aesthetic and educational purposes. The front garden operates as a tree nursery, while the back garden transforms into a continuous education space through a sensory garden, fostering a deeper connection with nature and learning. The transportation strategy is evident in the reduction of North Avenue to three lanes, prioritizing protected bike lanes, and minimizing on-site parking for sustainable transportation. Community integration takes center stage with extended paths and parking, connecting with the YMCA and school beyond the site, fostering a sense of shared space. The architectural thought continues with a dog trot optimizing views of Tech Tower, paying homage to historical architecture. The mass timber fractal column structure extends the natural theme from the nursery. Incorporating rainscreens to harvest rainwater showcases a commitment to resource efficiency. The transparent movable curtain wall in double-height spaces adds a dynamic touch, creating an interior-exterior space embracing the elements during the spring and fall months.

Inspire

YMCA

Break Room

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Open work Space Reading Room Study Study Large Study Study Study Reading Room Room Room Room Room Room

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Chair & Table Storage

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Tech’s Treehouse

1.5’ x 1’ Interior Wood Grid Support Beams

1.5 ‘ x 1’ Support Steel I Beams w Anchored Wood Beams on a 20’ x 35’ Grid

1’ x 1’ Wood Fractals

1.5’ x 1.5’ Wood Columns w Steel Caps

Whole Structure

Structural Diagram

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GARDEN GABLES Rethinking the tradtional form of a single family house in a proposed ecovillage ACADEMIC YEAR Fall 2022 LEVEL Senior l INSTRUCTOR Heather Potts heather.potts@design.gatech.edu LOCATION Atlanta, Ga The Chastain Ecovillage is a proposed development on the Chastain golf course. The community focuses on sustainable design and on new idea of what makes a home. The proposal is developed on the idea of the new carless lifestyle where a walkable community provides the basic necessities within minutes of home. The ecovillage is created on the guidelines of the living community challenge.

The community is broken up into four neighborhoods that consist of the Prismatic Park, Living Street, Garden Residences, and Urban Center. The Prismatic Park neighborhood is known as the area of transition from the Chastain area and the Chastain Ecovillage. The neighborhood supplies a park and garden back to the community. It invites surrounding and current residents to enjoy the artwork of the ecovillage within the vibrant gardens.

The Garden Gables proposal exists within the Prismatic Park Neighborhood and is a reflection of blending the new lifestyle with the surrounding area.

The co-housing takes the traditional single family housing form and reimagines the use and form. The existing roof lines from the community carves out areas for the gardens within the Prismatic Park. Using the form in new ways opens up the concept for reusing reconfiguring forms to fit an evolving society.

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EMBRACE THE ESCAPE Reinventing the Barcelona ila to provide an escape from the exterior realm ACADEMIC YEAR Summer 2022 LEVEL Senior ll INSTRUCTOR Mark Cottle mark.cottle@design.gatech.edu LOCATION Barcelona, Spain Barcelona is one of the most densest cities in the world with very few green spaces. In the 1980’s an urban project proposed to remove the interior area of city blocks in the Eixample district to create gardens.

Unfortunately, some gardens, such as Jardin de Merce Vilaret, became underutilized due to inconvenience of small size, lack of shade, and infrastructure.

The ramp structure shades and continues the darkness of the tunnel drawing the user in with repeating structural elements. Through the tunnel there is an alteration between small plantings and seating. The ramp continues to hug the parti walls to avoid existing trees on the site. The draping greenery contrasts the sandy lot that existed before and encourages the user to move up into the pavilion.

The ramp promotes movement and purpose within the garden. The first half of the ramp is heavy in form and provides a stage for the community. The second half of the ramp delicately touches the parti wall and provides the community with a shaded pavilion. The interior facades block the views and sounds of the exterior realm and the placement of the pavilion at an intermediary level provides and escape from the garden itself.

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CONNECT Connecting past and current residents in a gentrifying community in south Atlanta ACADEMIC YEAR

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Spring 2022 LEVEL

The analysis of public and private zones in St. Edwards New University Residence and Dining Hall show private zones, such as dorms, are focused on the exterior facades. The new form focuses on keeping private zones on the exterior, but also allowing an opportunity for exterior public zones.

Junior ll INSTRUCTOR Ryan Roark rroark@iit.edu LOCATION Atlanta, Ga Connect at the West End is a proposal for a mixeduse multi-family housing complex in Atlanta’s historic West End, an area where gentrification is occurring.

The West End was a prominent white neighborhood that was formed at the crossroads of a railway system that formed a bustling trading town. As the town continued to grow vast shifts in the demographics occurred’ from white flight in the mid-20th century to the current gentrification. After the white flight, the area turned into a predominantly black neighborhood that formed the cultural and historical roots of many generations.

This mixed-use affordable housing plan is intended to connect the community to the established historical and cultural roots whether those residents are new or old to the neighborhood. Since the gentrification, current residents have been timider to interact with their changing neighborhood, so the proposal welcomes people into the site and gets people interacting with their community again.

The library is existing on the site and has been a support for the community for generations. From housing after-school programs to providing locals with food and clothes. Two mixed-use programs occur within the proposal. One is located near the library which provides for a help center for those in need at the library. The other is a community center that hosts different activities and events that allow people in the community to do affordable activities.

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Part b: Proposal The overall shape of the project is a T that is slightly shifted at the center to form a communal living area for the residents and welcomes the public at the ground level through views of the library. The differing heights within the T system break up the relatively large scale of the project as compared to its neighbors which are mostly single-family homes, and the changing heights are also a nod to the diverse roof lines of the houses that are taken from the surrounding houses. The asymmetrical roof lines propose a solar aspect to the top apartment floors that allow skylights to enter living spaces. The center not only provides a central communal area for residents within the proposal but at ground level a community area for those in the public and an accessible roof garden to provide basic needs for the community.

Connect

RETREAT A meditation and pool spa delicately touches the sweetwater creek mill ruins ACADEMIC YEAR Fall 2020 LEVEL Sophomore lI INSTRUCTOR Harris Dimitropoulos harris.dimitropoulos@design.gatech.edu LOCATION Lithia Springs, Ga When we try to cultivate our best self, we need to center ourselves and think. It is then that we usually seek wellness and a way to retreat.

A visitor will have to take a winding path down the site to slowly enter this realm of tranquility and escape from the mundane. One is surrounded by ruins, by the natural environment, and by new buildings. These three elements are also referencing the past and the present. By pursuing wellness and meditation one hopes to experience lightness of being by leaving the stresses of life behind. Meditating at the highest elevation resembles this idea of lightness and elevating above those stressors.

The retreat is almost transparent, a visitor will be able to see through the spaces and experience the tranquility of the natural environment. The river appears endless and powered the ruins when it was once a mill. The retreat resembles this endless flow through an elongated space placed on the river along the ruins. Hearing and seeing the true experience of nature, forgetting the chaos of life, and getting lost within oneself and natural environment where everything first began. When cultivating our best selves, we reflect. The glazing of the window and reflection of the pools and river resembles the intended reflection.

Entering the ruins is the same intention as exiting to prepare ourselves to re enter the mundane as our best selves.

Meditation Relaxation Residential Entrance/Admin Cafe Pools Maintenance

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THE PUZZLE A series of rooms fill a box to create unique spaces between floors ACADEMIC YEAR Summer 2022 LEVEL Senior ll INSTRUCTOR Mark Cottle mark.cottle@design.gatech.edu LOCATION Theoretical A theoretical box needs to be filled with 4 large, 4 medium, and 4 small rooms. The large rooms must be 4800 sqft, the medium rooms must be 1200 sqft, and the small rooms must be 375 sqft.

The hourglass and S families are formed out of a grid in the box. The folds of the families are formed out of the same grid. The families interact with each other at the corners of the folds or corners of the shape itself.

In order to move between floors the theoretical person must travel strictly through the larges. The Medium and small shapes are placed between the larges to create unique volumes between the floors.

The medium and smalls are accessible, but are considered dead ends. The user doesn’t know the system until the last large, so the user experiences all the rooms until the puzzle is solved.

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THE MODULATOR A light-space-matter modulator explores the spatial interactions of tension & compression

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ACADEMIC YEAR Fall 2023 LEVEL Advanced I INSTRUCTOR Howard Wertheimer werth@gatech.edu LOCATION Theoretical The project explores spatial interaction using a lightspace-matter modulator, with a focus on tension and compression. At its core, this project features a designed grid-based system. As it unfolds, the grid gracefully unravels, with each component elegantly aligning with the others in a choreographed sequence. This dynamic interplay of light, space, and matter offers an immersive and thoughtprovoking experience, challenging our perceptions of space and dimensionality.

The first ordinary-looking box gracefully contracts, as if responding to an invisible force gently pushing at its two sides inward. In the second ordinarylooking box, a transformation occurs as if an invisible force gently pulls at its opposing sides. These actions awaken the spaces within, fostering spatial interaction that invites exploration.

These two elements harmoniously play together in opposites, showcasing the interactive dance of tension and compression. Witness the orchestrated interplay of opposing moves, offering a captivating exploration of spatial dynamics and the beauty that emerges from their interaction.

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WAYS OF SEEING Exploring Barcelona through a series of quick sketches in 8B ACADEMIC YEAR Summer 2022 LEVEL

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Senior II INSTRUCTOR Helen Fialkowski helenafialkowski@gmail.com LOCATION Barcelona, Spain A series of sketches were created by exploring Barcelona at all levels, from the smallest alleyway to some of Barcelona most prized possessions. The only medium used is a graphite 8b pencil which encouraged loose movements and blurred lines.

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REVIT Detailed Revit drawings from vairous work experiences A series of Revit drawings ranging from detailed sections, casework, and millwork for a restaurant and program drawings for room data sheets.