Kendra Teator Architecture Portfolio 2024

kendra e . teator university of virginia school of architecture

bachelor of science in architecture c/o 2024

kendra e. teator

ket5rjx@virginia.edu | (518) 415-9282 | LinkedIn: /in/kendrateator/ | Instagram: @ketportfolio

education:

University of Virginia School of Architecture B.S. in Architecture, May 2024, Cumulative GPA: 3.74 Minor in Real Estate through McIntire School of Commerce Vicenza Program | Summer 2023 | Vicenza & The Veneto, Italy

5-week intensive study abroad program centered around the power of hand drawing through exploration and observation. Visited and studied works by renowned architects including Palladio and Scarpa.

Foundation Studios I, II, III, IV, and V Research Studio & Independent Design Research Studio Intro to Structural Design CAAD 3D Geometric Modeling & Visualization Fundamentals of Real Estate Analysis Planning Law, Land and the Environment Saratoga Springs High School Saratoga Springs, NY Regents Diploma, Advanced Designation, June 2020

work experience:

skills:

Communication Problem-solving Multi-tasking Customer service Rhino 3D 7.0 Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Revit Enscape VRay ArcGIS AutoCAD Grasshopper (intro) Microsoft Office Hand drawing Watercolor Laser cutting 3D Printing Scale Model Building

Page Southerland Page, Inc. Architectural Intern | Albany, NY | May 2023-August 2023, December 2023-January 2024

Contributed to various stages of project development including concept design and proposal preparation.

Assisted senior architects in developing bids for RFPs. Observed client meetings discussing design ideas and progress. Visited construction sites to observe progress. Experience with academic and educational design.

Various Restaurant Positions Boar’s Head Resort | Prime at Saratoga National | Morissey’s Lounge | Seneca Host, Food Runner, Server | Saratoga Springs, NY, Charlottesville, VA | June 2020-May 2023

Developed customer relationships, served food and beverages, maintained high-quality customer service in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment, communicated with guests, co-workers.

Saratoga Dance, Etc. Sales associate | Saratoga Springs, NY | Aug 2018-March 2020

Helped design creative window displays, provided customer service to guests, answered phone and made appointments, operated cash register, fit dance shoes and attire.

volunteer experience: Habitat For Humanity

Charlottesville, VA | August 2021-Present

Volunteer at The Habitat Store on the loading dock and as a sales associate, participated in the annual Rake-a-Thon to help clean up leaves from the community.

Saratoga City Ballet

Saratoga Springs, NY | 2018-Present

Volunteer at dance productions backstage as an Alumnus, designed covers for playbills.

studios The Collective

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Foothill Formations

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Intersection

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Artist’s Retreat

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other works The Vicenza Summer Program

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Personal Artwork

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studios

THE COLLECTIVE

a t S a n F e l i p e d e l M o r ro Course: ARCH 4010, FALL 2023 Professor: Luis Pancorbo Site: Castillo San Felipe del Morro, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico In rethinking the role of San Felipe del Morro, a 16th century fort on the island of Old San Juan in Puerto Rico, it was important to draw on Puerto Rico’s rich culture. The arts immediately came to mind and have proven to be essential to Puerto Rican culture. From early indigenous Taino arts, to Nuyorican movements, Puerto Rican arts are chronicles of the Island’s history and something to be celebrated and nurtured. The Collective is an artist colony within San Felipe del Morro with four main programmatic components. One, artists in residence: The Collective will host Puerto Rican artists and provide room, board, and studio space for them to work on their chosen art form in an environment free of economic stressors. Two, exhibition space: provide space for artists in residence and local artists to display their work to the public and generate interaction with the community. Three, interactive art studios: provide the public with hands-on opportunities to learn various art forms and the history of Puerto Rican art. And four, an artisan market: host a monthly market where local artists can sell their goods. This informed different levels of privacy for the artists in the form of a collective studio space with adaptable furniture that can be expanded or contracted from the artists’ personal space, thus adjusting their desired privacy. This space is visible from overhanging truss structures which house the public programs. Artists also have shared studios between their private spaces that are not visible by the public.

Site Plan

6 | the collective

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SW - NE Section

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Catenary Truss System: Triangulated catenary fink trusses composed of steel members that span between main truss structural system to support a mesh screen.

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Top Floor | Public Houses administrative, exhibition, and educational programs within three truss structures

Middle Floor | Public Suspended from top floor trusses that house exhibition and educational programs 10 | the collective

Adjustable Furniture Schemes Allows artists to adjust privacy levels within collective studio

Ground Floor | Public + Private On-level with main tourist entrance; semi-private + private artist studios housed within right half kendra e. teator | 11

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Exhibition space

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View from ground floor public space

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FOOTHILL FORMATIONS a t Wa l k e r U p p e r E l e m e n t a r y

Course: ARCH 3020, SPRING 2023 Professor: J.T. Bachman Site: Walker Upper Elementary, Charlottesville, VA This environmental education center for 5th and 6th grade students is situated in Charlottesville, VA on the site of Walker Upper Elementary- an existing public school for the area. It serves to provide the students and community with a space to learn about cultivation, agriculture, and sustainable practices. The programming features many flexible spaces aimed to promote gathering, classrooms, an auditorium, cafe, and its very own hydroponic farm. The physical design started with the exploration of aerial rural patterns, tracing these patterns informed the aerial view of the outer shell of the school. Later, axes of the tracing were pulled upward to create a mountain-like formation, echoing Charlottesville’s position at the foot- hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The primary spaces of the program exist within and on top of wedge-shaped volumes informed by the roof plan. These volumes are encased in an outer shell. Light enters the space via South-facing clerestory windows in the eaves of the shell. There are two primary modes of circulation. One short, cross-grained mode that carries you directly from the soccer field to the parking lot; and one zig-zagging mode that allows for a more experiential route.

Site Plan 16 | foothill formations

Form extrapolated from aerial views of farmland

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Re s u l t re m i n i s c e n t o f Bl u e Ri dg e Mo u n t a i n s

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Iterative forms

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Final form in situ

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First Floor

Ground Floor

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INTERSECTION

a t S c o t t ’s A d d i t i o n Course: ARCH 2020, SPRING 2022 Professor: José Ibarra Site: Scott’s Addition District, Richmond, VA The premise surrounding this project is the intersection of living, working, and learning, especially in a postpandemic condition. In investigating design, the main goal was to serve a demographic sometimes required to work and learn from home. The design incorporates three different unit styles that provide ample space for such activity and can house a variety of people.

Additionally, the ground floor includes a public library for the surrounding community in the Scott’s Addition District of Richmond, Virginia. This library serves as a resource to both residents and those in the surrounding community. In addition to the public learning space on the ground floor, the third floor includes other public programming with flexible indoor-outdoor space to house community activities and also give residents space to work and enjoy time outside their individual units. On the first and fourth floors, there are two types of lofted units that provide residents with space to simultaneously live and work. The loft accesses the private second and fifth floors that provide residents with outdoor space not directly accessible by the public. The skin system that wraps this project serves to elevate these outdoors spaces and make them even more enjoyable for residents with its unique shadow and lighting qualities. This skin covers some outdoor space making it multi-functional and shaded.

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CASE STUDY: Edificio Jaraguá

Residential building located in São Paulo, Brazil, designed

by Paulo Mendes da Rocha circa 1984. Each unit spans an entire floor, with slabs at two different levels separated by five steps. The difference in level shapes the program of the units with the kitchen on the lower slab, and living room, bedroom, bathrooms, and office space on the upper slab.

DISECT

DUPLICATE + ROTATE

DUPLICATE + ROTATE

North Elevation, Edificio Jaraguá

In starting the design process, the Edificio Jaraguá’s unique sectional conditions served as inspiration for the resulting units. Using a stereotomic approach and preserving the multi-level nature of Jaraguá’s units, I dissected the form to create a smaller component; then proceeded with a series of formal operations resulting in a foundational iterative form.

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DUPLICATE + ROTATE

Iterative planar model

Iterative subtractive model

Final form

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30 | intersection

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Ground Floor | Public Library

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First Floor | Entry level of loft units, repeats on fourth floor

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Second Floor | Lofted level of loft units, repeats on fifth floor

Third Floor | Single level units

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Unit B

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Physical model, NW Elevation

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ARTIST’S RETREAT

Course: ARCH 2020, SPRING 2022 Professor: José Ibarra This artist’s retreat is situated within a neighborhood composed of a variety of residences designed by peers. With an emphasis on dwelling with neighbors and connectivity, the design of this retreat features shared living space on the ground floor connected to the residence of it’s direct neighbor (design by Savannah Eppley). The residents of the respective designs still maintain a level of privacy beyond their shared spaces.

The ground floor also includes a private bedroom and bathroom. Additionally, the design of the residence relies on the strategic use of louvers, delicately balancing light and privacy throughout the structure, especially given its corner-lot setting. The upper floor, containing an art studio/working space and second bedroom, is flooded with gentle, diffused light, preserving the integrity of any materials the artist may use.

Studio Space 38 | artist’s retreat

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Axonometric

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Ground floor living area

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other works

THE VICENZA PROGRAM

Course: ARCH 5800+5801, SUMMER 2023 Professor: Luis Pancorbo and Ines Martin Robles Site: Vicenza and the Veneto, Italy The Vicenza Program was a transformative chapter during my time at the University of Virginia. It offered a truly unique opportunity to refine my hand drawing skills through the observation of architectural masterpieces

by Andrea Palladio and Carlo Scarpa among others.

Being immersed in works by the likes of Villa Rotunda, Basilica Palladiana,Tomba Brion, and Castelvecchio is an experience that will resonate with me throughout my design career and life beyond. Apart from the tangible beauty of these sites, it is the vibrant spirit of Italy itself, resultant of a combination of architecture, space, and culture, that will always have a piece of my heart (and my sketchbook).

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Giardino Barbarigo, Padua

Giardino Giusti, Verona

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Villa Rotunda, Vicenza

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Palazzo Valmarana, Vicenza

Piazza Mercato Vecchio, Verona 50 | the vicenza program

Tomba Brion, Treviso

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THROUGH MY EYES i n w a t e rc o l o r & p e n

I have always been drawn to the visually aesthetic, it guided me to the study of architecture. Through the following vignettes, I hope to give a glimpse into the moments, places, and things that have formed me as a person and lover of aesthetics.

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My dog, Teddy, on the back porch kendra e. teator | 53

Cows along the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

The Lawn, University of Virginia

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Paths through the sand, Cape Cod

4th St Lifeguard Tower, Miami Beach

Warning! Unstable areas, Cape Cod

My dog, Teddy, rolling over

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Rotunda courtyard, University of Virginia

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My dog, Teddy, at Christmastime

The Paramount Theatre, Downtown Charlottesville

My friend in the wings, The Nutcracker

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Kendra E. Teator ket5rjx@virginia.edu 5184159282