PORTFOLIO THE SELECTIVE WORKS OF
KRISTYN SIMONEAU ARCHITECTURE GRAPHIC DESIGN SCENIC DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION
GET TO KNOW ME M y n a me i s Kr i s t y n S i monea u a nd I h a ve re ce n t l y g ra d u a t e d cum l a u d e w it h a B S i n a rc h i t e ct u re a nd a BA in g ra p h i c d e s i g n f ro m Keene S t a t e Co lleg e wi t h ext e n s i ve exp er i ence in t h ea t e r d e s i g n a n d p ro d ucti o n. I a m c u r re n t l y p u r s u i n g my ma st er s i n Th em ed E n t e r t ai n me n t I nt egra ti o n f or m t he U n i ve r s i t y o f F l o r i d a . My f u tu re go a l s a re t o g o o n t o b eco me a des ign e r a t a t h e me d ent er t a i nment co m pa ny.
SKILLS
SOFTWARE
ADDITIONAL
Autodesk Revit
Free hand Illustration and drafting
Autodesk AutoCad Sketchup Adobe Creative Suite Microsoft office Rhino
Reading architecture and construction drawings Theatrical terminology, Documentation, and Show related equipment Construction materials, Hardware and tools
LANGUAGES English- Native Italian- Intermediate
CONTENTS TRANSPORTATION HUB MID-RISE YOGA STUDIO RECREATION CENTER FIRE STATION
ARCHITECTURE
TYPE ANATOMY ZOO POSTER NYC POSTER CLOCK FACE
GRAPHIC DESIGN
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS HAPPY DAYS
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AN EVENING OF DANCE
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SCENIC DESIGN
TRANSPORTATION HUB For senior design we were tasked with creating our own project that not only benefited a community but also had an overarching theme with it. My passion for themed entertainment design and my interest in conservation efforts led me to design a transportation hub that not only transported people from Orlando International Airport to Disney property in place of Disney’s bus services, but also educated and immersed guests into the local environment.
SITE MAP
Diagram
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The building starts off as one large rectangle that is then cut into three distinct sections. From there the ground floor and the top floor are cut to allow for it to be open air to feel more connected to the nature.
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The main hub area includes an education area where people can relax while also learning about the unique wildlife and beautiful environment that populates the central Florida area as well as the conservation efforts Disney is taking to help it. Through enhancements like projected glass and augmented reality, guest can learn about all this by interacting with imagery and their favorite Disney characters.
All around the Hub lies walking trails that allow guest to walk around the property and take in the surrounding environment. These paths are raised from the ground as not to interfere with the natural environment
FLOOR 1MAIN HUB
FLOOR 2CAST SERVICES
FLOOR 1PLATFORM
The hub is built of mainly eucalyptus wood to help immerse guest into the natural environment. Eucalyptus is also a naturally grown material in the state of Florida and a sustainable building material which is both beneficial in the story telling, but also the conservation efforts. The use of columns and beams in the design of the building as well as utilizing glass and open air allows more of a feeling of being in nature.
MIXED USE MID RISE For Design IV, the task was to design a mixed used mid-rise on a challenging site in Keene, New Hampshire. A sustainable overlay topic, which ended up being biophilia, also had to be included into the final design. The first floor of the mid-rise houses a public cafe for residents of the town to use, and the remaining floors have apartments and amenities for the tenants.
First Floor Cafe
Diagram
Fifth Floor Patio
The use of wooden slats as shading devices on the outside of the building help naturally shade it. On the first and second floor, the larger fins are pushed away from the building to create a covered walkway on the sidewalk. The wooden slats and fins used throughout the building not only create natural shading, but they also help evoke the feeling of trees casting shadows in the forest to help incorporate the biophilia into the design of the building.
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Common 1 Bedroom Unit
Common 2 Bedroom Unit
YOGA STUDIO In Design III, we were all given the same existing studio, Studio in the Trees by Nicholas Waldman, and we had to add an addition onto it. The outside of the original building had to remain the same, but the interior could be changed to optimize the space and use. Additionally a separate yoga studio and one bedroom studio had to be added with a unifying look of the original studio.
West Elevation
South Elevation
While the original studio is located in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, the site that we were given to build on is a large piece of land on Spofford Lake in Keene, New Hampshire. The differing shapes in the roof is designed to not only compliment the existing building, but to also mimic the mountains that this region is famous for.
SITE MAP
Instead of creating 3D perspectives on programs like Revit or CAD, our final project had to include a model that we built that could come apart and show all aspects of our building.
Interior floor plans
North Elevation
Interior Yoga Studio Perspective
On either side of the building are two separate one bedroom residents with the living areas located on the bottom floor with direct access to the lake and the kitchens and common room located on the main floor. Between these two buildings is the yoga studio with both an inside and outside workout area.
GROUND FLOOR
FIRST FLOOR
RECREATION CENTER For Design II, the main project was to create a boat house and recreation center for Brattleboro Vermont. Since the building lays right off the downtown area, it had to blend in with the current architecture in Brattleboro while also having a modern feel to it.
North West Section
SITE MAP
Diagram In the diagram, there are three similar rectangles. Two of them are pulled to the same height, and one is taller to allow for more program. The rectangles then curve in and out to mimic the water front.
FLOOR 1
FLOOR 2
FLOOR 3
The first floor of the recreation center contains the pool as well as locker rooms for the pool, office and meeting spaces and the boat house. The second floor has a viewing area for the pool, a main hub area, and the fitness center and locker rooms. The top floor has a cafe that provides an excellent view of the lake.
WEST KEENE FIRE STATION The West Keene Fire Station was a Collaborative Architecture Design project; allowing us to work with real clients to work on and fix the existing buildings. We had to work in teams to create a solution for an existing building in our area, being given the current West Keene Fire Station to create a more efficient design.
The original fire station had a long rectangular program that covered the entire front of the building and prevented the trucks from exiting immediately onto the main road, instead having to take a longer response time to exit through the back. In the renovated design, part of that front program was removed to create an immediate exit for the trucks onto the main road, as well as a redesign of the entire interior to create a better layout and flow for the station.
public private work
SITE MAP
Training Room Features including a training room, a newly designed kitchen and recreation room, additional locker rooms and bedrooms, a decon room, and more, all of which has immediate response time to the apparatus floor, allowed the newly designed station to have the most functionality .
Recreation Room/Kitchen
Bedroom
TYPE ANATOMY
A project featured in typography was to pick three different type faces, designers, and quotes, and to feature them on three differently designed posters. The posters had to feature different unique parts of the three different fonts in three different ways. The goals was to not make the posters look unifying but, instead, to make it appear as though three different designers had made them.
Century 725
Mrs Eaves
Perpetua
ZOO POSTER
In graphic design process, one project was to make a fictional poster for a zoo advertising one of their animal experiences. The final submission had to include a poster and a solo image of the animal with a distinct color scheme.
NYC POSTER
One project in typography was to create a poster for the yearly Keene State art departments New York City trip. The criteria of the project was to make a poster that was solely type based with no other imagery but still interesting to look at and eye capturing. The poster had to feature certain elements including the how when and where information and the list of all the features that would be viewed in the trip that was provided by the art department.
The idea from the first draft to the final poster was to highlight “NYC”. The real change between the first and final poster was the layout of the text, the color, and adding in the whole word “New York City” while still highlight NYC. All these changes were made to make a more readable and interesting poser. The final poster was chosen to be featured throughout the art department building.
CLOCK FACE In typography, one project was to create clock faces with different designs. For the final project, one design had to be decided on and worked on to establish a theme. The final design was then cut out and placed into a working clock
THE LAST FIVE YEARS
In the winter of 2021, the Keene State Theater Department put on a production of The Last Five Years. As part of the design team, I helped build the set for the show. The majority of the set was a circular turn table that could rotate with each side being able to be utilized as different settings for each scene. Behind the main set piece was two large screens that had different images projected on them based on the scene.
AN EVENING OF DANCE
Every year, towards the end of the spring semester, the Keene State College dance department puts on their annual show titled An Evening of Dance. Each year the scenic department builds sets and props that corresponds with each dance that is showcased. In 2021, one portion of the show was a dystopian 70s styled dance sequence and the other aspect of the show was about depicting nature through dance.
The dystopian 70s styled dance sequence featured TV props, multiple large flats that were flown in and also light up to correspond with the dance, and a larger movable dinner table that had a person head at one end and legs at the other.
In the nature portion of the show, a large flat with cloud like shapes had images of nature projected on it while the dances preformed. In another scene large sheets of fabric were draped in the background that was incorporated into the choreography and helped create dramatic shadows
HAPPY DAYS
The show for the 2020 winter production was Happy Days. The set for happy days was a large, stationary tree stump and roots. Essentially a one person play, the lone female performer stood at the center inside the stump while the stump, the only part of the set that moved, slowly grew until it finally engulfed her. Large flats were also built with projection screens inside them to focus on the actress’s face and show different images as well. Unfortunately, due to Covid, the play never officially made it to the stage.