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LEAH BALDOCCHI
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURE PORFOLIO
FLORIDA LANDSCAPE
Architectural Design Studio V Professor: Michael Kuenstle
The purpose of this project was to study the topography and attributes of Fort Island Beach, FL. The intent was to design three interventions along the beach in efforts to activate the coast as a community space. The three interventions include an entrance to the beach that welcomes and adapts from a simplistic welcome area into an open space that embraces the beauty of the nature. The second intervention is a restaurant and entertainment space. It includes an outdoor patio connected to the restaurant that can be used for outdoor eating, dancing, and much more. The final intervention is a peaceful and serene meditation space for relaxing and renewing. The interventions are constructed using a module of repeated components, The components used in this project were vertical pleats. The repetition of the components allows for the three interventions to be recognized together as a family.
Preliminary Diagramatic Site Mapping
Intervention #1: Entrance to Beach
Intervention #2: Restaurant
Intervention #3: Meditation
Site Mapping
One of the focus points in this project was to design porous structures. These six studies are collaged renders of porous surface models. The intent behind incorporating porosity in the interventions was as a reflection of the naturally porous quality of many attributes found on the beach.
BYL HOUSES STUDY Architects: Christian Romero Valente & Raimundo Guiterrez Frias Professor: Nawari Nawarid The BYL Houses are a reformation of a single, previously existing home. The architects intended to split the house in two, creating houses for two separate families. The concrete structural walls of the first floor of the original house were used in the new projects, while the rest of the home was demolished. The model of the home shown was built in Revit using different plans and sections found online.
CHARLESTON OPERA HOUSE AND RUNWAY Architectural Design Studio VI Professor: Peter Sprowls
The program of this project is both an opera house and a runway. The site of the project is in Charleston, SC on the corner on King Street and Calhoun Street. The program of a runway was inspired by the reason so many people are drawn to this area of the city; high-end shopping. I used clothing design as a means to inspire the method of building design. Words such as stitch, pleat, layer, drape, and seam can be seen through the expression of the spaces and spatial holders in this project. For example, the entire shape of the building was designed through pleating.
CIRQUE DE SOLEIL PERFORMACE TOWER Architectural Design Studio IV Professor: Elizabeth Cronin
Cirque De Soleil is a magnificent production and source of entertainment. There are many complementary ideas on space and art between acrobatic performance and architectural design. The three programs of this tower include a practice, performance, and renewal space for acrobats. The construction methods of the tower are symbolic of the structure of the acrobats on stage. The heavy, rough plaster massing in the center represents the strength of each performer’s body. The fragile and smooth, yet broken plaster molds embrace the apparent delicacy of the the performance. The thin, hollow molds that were once a whole are now split apart and pulled away from eachother, paralleling the separation of the acrobats as they soar over our heads from one hand to the next.
Renewal Space
Practice Space
Performace Space
RUINS
Architectural Design Studio III Professor: Amanda Rutherford This model serves as a location for the creation of bells. Through the use of brittle concrete, the model emanates an ancient grounds for the life of bells beginning with the melting and forming of bronze for production and ending with the retirement of old bells in which they are permanently laid to rest.
DESERT
Architectural Design Studio IV Professor: Elizabeth Cronin The challenge of the Desert project was to create a programatic destination in a site with little to no topographical influence. The occupant enters this structure with the intent of practicing yoga. The structure provides spaces for group classes, personal meditation, as well as a sauna. The outdoor space underneath the structure is used as a hot yoga studio. Through the natural qualities of the desert sand, heat from the sun is absorbed and radiated into the space creating the perfect, warm environment.
ST. AUGUSTINE STUDY Architectural Design Studio IV Professor: Elizabeth Cronin
As the oldest city in America, St. Augustine is saturated with archaic architectural design and distinct city planning. The objective of this study was to map the experience of walking through the city of St. Augustine, noticing the objects and spaces that mark a threshold from one perceptual quality to another. The model serves as a matrix of a specific walk taken through the city streets. The glycerin molds incorporated into the model represent the most impactful spaces encountered. The system of wires locate and hold within them the transitional thresholds from one space to another.
DOOR WINDOW STAIR Architectural Design Studio III Professor: Amanda Rutherford
The focus of Door Window Stair was to design a structure for the occupant that complimented their daily itenerary. The structural itinerary was designed specifically through the influence of the novel The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer. The model has three separate itinerarys, each one describing the daily paths of the human characters, the whippoorwill, or the narrator.
Secluded Space to Recollect