2024 Architecture Portfolio

ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO LAUREN ELLIOT

lelliot@ksu.edu (402)-686-9686 www.linkedin.com/in/laurenelliot

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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NEXUS FIRE STATION Wamego, Kansas Fall 2021 Professor Jongwan Kwon Bowman Design Competition

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HART ISLAND COLUMBRARIUM

Har t Island, New York City, New York Fall 2023 Professor Genevieve Baudoin Studio Design Project

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BANK OF THE FUTURE Kansas City, Missouri Spring 2021 Professor Torgeir Norheim Studio Design Project

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MUSEUM OF EMOTIONS Manhattan, Kansas Fall 2022 Professor Cameron Tross Studio Design Project

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ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCES

Fabrication Exploration, Study Abroad, and Internship Experience

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FALL 2021

NEXUS FIRE STATION

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The town of Wamego needed a functional fire station that doubles as a place for the community to come together. This fire station is two program blocks interlocking on top of one another. The lower volume consists of the operational spaces for the firefighters to work and be prepared in case of emergency, as well as the public spaces that ser ve the citizens of Wamego, KS. The upper volume acts as the residential spaces that ser ve the firefighters during their “off duty hours”. This includes a kitchen, living room, bedrooms, bathrooms, laundr y, workout space, and outdoor relaxation space. The central space of this volume is the double-height, semi-private general living space for the firefighters. The place where the two masses intersect are exposed with glass openings to emphasize this connection. These spaces create visual connections between the var ying programs of different levels as well as to the outside. A central skylight also emphasizes this central connection, as well.

The upper volume is held up by four large columns that also define the central meeting room and extend to the upper floors. The cantilevers are then suppor ted by a large truss system that occupies the upper volume. This structure is exposed on the exterior facades in the spaces where the two masses interlock. The glass of the lower volume allows the upper volume to appear to be floating above the site. It also creates the feeling of being open to the community. The lower public volume houses the meeting room which can be used by the firefighters for training purposes or for other gatherings for the people of Wamego. There is also outdoor space on the nor th side of the site that could hold another kind of community gathering. The raising of half the program also creates space for the firetrucks to drive through the apparatus bay on this small site.

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THIRD FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR 0’ 5’ 10’

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SECOND FLOOR 0’ 5’ 10’

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NORTH-SOUTH SECTION OBLIQUE 0’

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SECTION MODEL EXTERIOR

STRUCTURAL MODEL

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SECTION MODEL INTERIOR

SITE MODEL

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WOOD CLAD ROOF PLANE WITH CENTRAL SKYLIGHT

DOUBLE CANTILEVER WIDE FLANGE STEEL TRUSS

WOOD CLAD UPPER ENCLOSURE

PROGRAM ORGANIZATION

WIDE FLANGE STEEL COLUMNS

CONCRETE PANEL LOWER ENCLOSURE

CIRCULATION CONCRETE FOOTINGS

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BUILDING ASSEMBLY

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FALL 2023

HART ISLAND COLUMBRARIUM

Har t Island, New York has a dark histor y as a burial ground for over 75 thousand individuals. This project is intended to be relective of that experience as a home for the remains of thousands more. Star ting from a series of wall fabrications and iterations, this project exists as a series of wall systems that creates spaces for the living to experience and niches for the ashes of the deceased. Visitors access the site by ferr y and come up onto the island from the dock. Also on the dock is a building that acts as a pavilion for information on the island and archives of the burials. The visitor then enters their experience of interacting and engaging with the system of walls. An inter val wall defines the end and entrance of these spaces alongside the one shor ter and the one longer wall which holds the remains of the deceased. The walls containing these niches consist of wood boxes with removable caps that rest on brackets on steel structural elements allowing the boxes to overlap and be open in between. These spaces are broken up by reflecting pools and terraced seating as the land slopes up from the surrounding water.

Varied across the site are overhead canopies, as well, that help define spaces and provide overhead protection while engaging sunlight. Together, these elements provide the visitor with a sense of place that feels like an engaging journey for them to take while being refelctive and somber in nature. Additionally, this system of walls and inter val spaces could be easily expanded in the future if necessar y to accomodate more remains.

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SITE PLAN 0’ 10’ 20’

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WALL ITERATION PROCESS

PLAN 0’

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SOUTHWEST PAVILION ELEVATION 0’

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SOUTHEAST PAVILION ELEVATION 0’

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NICHE WALL ASSEMBLY DETAIL 0’

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CANOPY CONNECTION DETAIL 0’ 6”

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SITE SECTION

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SPRING 2021

BANK OF THE FUTURE

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While banks may seem increasingly less popular in today’s society, this project allows the building to ser ve both as a functional bank and a public cafe space. Located in Kansas City, Missouri, at the intersection of two semi-urban streets, this building has a clear representation of the design ideas happening within from the exterior street view. A cur ved glass enclosure system around the entire building exposes the structure of the building. Cur ved capital columns hold up the large waffle slab that covers the entirety of the interior spaces as well as the drive through, for users who wish to simply do their banking from their car. Varied skylights permeate the skylight to allow additional light and connection to the exterior.

The upper offices and spaces of more private program appear to be floating as they are suppor ted only by the columns on the interior. Par tition walls on the south of the interior also define ser vice program in this exposed building for the more private spaces. Clear vehicular circulation is defined by landscape and exterior walls also ser ve to separate man from machines on this site. Gaps appear between the roof and glas cur tain walls as well as between the glass cur tain walls and the ground to highlight and expose the different systems at work.

Or thogonal air lock doors emphasize the entrances along the glass as well as concrete walls following the movement of the glass enclosure and extending it into the site.

Ample seating on the interior and exterior allow for this space to act as more than a place to do banking. The unique shape and transparency of the site allows this building to be a destination of a community rather than simply an errand.

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EAST ELEVATION

EAST-WEST SECTION

NORTH ELEVATION

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN 0’

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SECOND FLOOR PLAN

VARYING ENCLOSURE SYSTEMS

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MUSEUM OF EMOTIONS

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In this museum, the architecture becomes the art. Located in Manhattan, Kansas, at the intersection of the highway that leads visitors into town, this site is comprised of three seperate buidlings, a positive emotion hall, a negative emotion hall, and the main lobby building for the museum. The formation and placement of these seperate spaces onto the site is intended to bring people into it in order to experience this large site as a whole and encourage engagement from the community. These designated paths of engagement are defined by the hardscape versus softscape of the site and the reflecting pools.

The concrete Y-columns of the main building, inspired by Tadao Ando’s museum in For t Wor th, Texas, hold up a thin concrete cantilevering roof. The cur tain wall facade of this main building is also broken up by a wood panel spandrel system that connects the three buildings together of the site. This main building houses a cafe, office spaces, ser vice program, the museum lobby, and transitional spaces to prepare the visitor for the museum experience of different emotions, as well as an additional galler y space and exterior seating upstairs. The clear progression of spaces prepares the visitor from the upstairs transitional space to descending down a long bridge into the first hall, the negative hall.

This building is intended to express harshness, stress, and disorientation. Cast-in-place concrete loadbearing walls are angular and random, and varied small skylights cast down harsh light from above.

The visitor is then lead outside down a path defined by reflecting pools to the second hall, the positive hall. This space is intended to feel organic, enveloping, and flowing. A cur ving wood system of horizontal panels defines the space, with cur ved par tion walls to allow for ar t installations. The gaps in the horizontal wood panels and the clerestories above bring soft natural light into this space, giving a more positive emotion for the visitors. The user is than released out onto the site, an open grassy area that can be utilized as a sculpture galler y or gathering space for the community.

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BASE BUILDING

BEND TO ENGAGE SITE

CARVE FOR ENTRY CIRCULATION

BREAK OFF OF ANGLED FORM TO CREATE OPPOSITE HALLS

TRANSVERSE SECTION 0’

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN 0’

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TERMINATION BAR 8mm VAPOR BARRIER 2in RIGID INSULATION TAPERED CONCRETE ROOF SLAB WITH REINFORCING STEEL GLULAM COLUMNS STEEL STRUCTURAL CONNECTION PIECES GLULAM BEAMS HVAC DUCTWORK

WOOD PANELS SPANDREL PANELS STEEL CONNECTION BRACKETS ALUMINUM MULLIONS RECESSED LIGHTING WOOD PANEL DROP CEILING CURVED WOOD PANEL PARTITION WALLS HORIZONTAL WOOD PANELS

REFLECTING POOL TILES SEALANT MEMBRANE 6in COMPACT GRAVEL EXPANSION JOINT COMPACT SOIL 8mm VAPOR BARRIER DRAINAGE PIPE CANT STRIP 2in RIGID INSULATION CONCRETE FOOTING WITH REINFORCING STEEL CONCRETE FLOOR SLAB WITH REINFORCING STEEL AREA OF INQUIRY IN POSITIVE HALL 0’

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SITE ENGAGEMENT

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WEST ELEVATION

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METAL SHEET PLASMA CUTTING AND BENDING

THIN METAL ROD WELDING AND BENDING

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FALL 2023

FABRICATION EXPERIMENTATION

WOOD CNC AND SANDING

PLASTER CAST MOLDING

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SPRING 2023

ITALIAN STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM

I had the amazing oppor tunity of being able to study abroad in Or vieto, Italy in my four th year as an architecture student. Through this experience I was able to learn about different cultures and cities, as well, as ar t, architecture, and histor y, and how these are all connected. Through traveling and being emersed in other ways of life I was able to really broaden my knowledge of archutecture and urban planning. This experience was also an oppor tunity to enhance my hand-drawing skills and be able to por tray architecture and design without the use of computer programming. The things I have learned, people I met, and the influential architecture and settings I was able to experience first hand while living in Italy will remain relevant in my thoughts and designs going for ward in my architecture career.

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SUMMER 2023

INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

The summer after my four th year at Kansas State I had an oppoor tunity to intern at BCDM Architects in Omaha, Nebraska. In this summer, I learned so much about architecture with a real world perspective. I was able to attend many site visits throughout various par ts of the design project. I also got to sit in on, and be a par t of, different kinds of meetings at different phases of design with clients, contractors, consultants, and other members of the firm. I was on a variety of different projects throughout those few months with a wide range of responsibilties. From costestimating, creating and editting revit models and drawings, photographing and analyzing sites and projects, create presentations and documents on projects, and much more. I am grateful to have had this first hand learning and working experience, and it made me eager to do it on a more permenant and serious basis in my future after graduation.

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ABOUT ME

As an architecture student at Kansas State University, I have learned that my passion for architecture extends beyond the classroom. The design skills, both creative and technical, that I have gained through various classes and other involvements has led me to see a true purpose in designing as having a positive affect on the societies of today. Pushing the bounds of what is creatively conceivable is my goal as a future architect. I am detail-oriented and hard working, and I enjoy experimenting through the design process to uncover new architectural forms that posses both unique personality and simple practicality.

CONTACT

lelliot@ksu.edu (402)-686-9686 www.linkedin.com/in/laurenelliot

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