Laura Fegely - M.Arch Portfolio (Spreads) - Fall 2020 - Non-Arch Background

L A U R A CHRISTEN F E G E LY

Portfolio for Application to Masters of Architecture, Fall 2020

Laura Fegely

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Town, STATE 12345 @: email@gmail.com #: (123)456-7890

About Me

I was an electrical engineer in the field of MEMS (Micro ElectroMechanical Systems) and chip-scale photonics. I was drawn to studies where I could play with the function of shape and material.

I am now switching to a career where the design of shape and material can be more directly experienced.

I am invested in architecture that connects to community, to the environment, and to relevancy in the world today.

Table of Contents

ROTATE Ph.D. Thesis, 2008-2013

ARTWORK Bargue Drawing | Oil Painting

Pages 3-7

Page 17

ACCUMULATE

PHOTOGRAPHY

Pages 8-12

Pages 18-22

Design Discovery, GSD, 2019

INTERLOCK Design Discovery, GSD, 2019 Pages 13-16

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ROTATE

| Ph.D. Thesis work, Cornell University, 2008-2013

Hemispherical Shell Resonator Gyroscope

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Anisotropy

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“Wineglass” resonant modes in a Hem

Etching

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The elastic deformation rotates through an angle proportional to, but smaller than, the rotation experienced by the physical device.

Caveat: The geometry must have nearly perfect radial symmetry.

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Si Si3N4 Isotropic etch

Silicon forms a diamond crystalline lattice. It can be etched “isotropically� using a combination of Hydrofluoric and Nitric Acids, but...

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Pattern etch

Expected etch front

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Actual etch front

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Circular etch mask

Silicon Silicon Nitride

Release etch

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Hemispherical Shell Resonator Gyroscope

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Answer: Not really.

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However, it did become clear that diffusion-limited regimes showed more anisotropy.

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Is there a way that we can keep the etch in the reaction rate limited regime?

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Deionized Water

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Nitric 69.91% 5

Solution #1: Pop-Up Rings

Us rings are poppped off the substrate as they are undercut. This keeps th ing the time it takes for the 3D shape to develop.

H2 Pressure Force

This work has continued to be used by the Bhave research group in papers s M. M. Torunbalci, S. Dai, A. Bhat & S. A. Bhave, “Acceleration insensitive hemi Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Belfast, 2018, pp. 956-959. doi: 1

sing the hydrogen gas byproduct of the HF-Nitric etch, he etch in the reaction-rate limited regime, while reduc-

such as: ispherical shell resonators using pop-up rings,” 2018 IEEE 10.1109/MEMSYS.2018.8346716

Hemispherical Shell Resonator Gyroscope

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Anisotropy

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Etching

Variations in ring number, ring width, and gap width were studied.

This method works well for larger hemispheres (400-2000μm diameters), but how can we decrease the size?

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By understanding where the overetch will occu

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Hemispherical Shell Resonator Gyroscope

Circle Mask

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Anisotropy

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Etching

Rounded Plus Mask

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ACCUMULATE

| Design Discovery, GSD, 2019

Public Space Precedent ¡ Transformation ¡ Site

Structure

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Site

Circulation

With Sendai Mediateque as a precedent, monochrome diagrams were constructed to conceptualize facets of the building.

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wo ‘Essence Models’ were then distilled from the precedent study.

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Public Space Precedent · Transformation · Site

Offset

Bend

Subtract

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Public Space Precedent ¡ Transformation ¡ Site One of the transformed essence models was used as the form for a civic engagement center, to be placed on a site investigated and reported on by a group of students studying urban planning.

The site shown is a donating site within a TDR zone, and since developable air rights had been sold to neighboring high-rise buildings, the bordering residential buildings were visually dominated and cut off from the nearby river.

For this reason, I designed my building to sit mostly below ground, and to use sections of glass that not only bring light into the underground space, but also maintain visibility from the residential zone to the adjacent green. Access is maintained by deleting portions of the extruded shape in section.

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Site map and foam city model provided by studio instructors.

C. Djang, M. Gonzalez, A. Camacho

Green extends over building

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Visibility from intersection to green

Underground debate hall extends exterior shape

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Public Space Precedent

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Transformation

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Site

Section slices in accumulation build the

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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of privat

Differing section slices accumulate to form the overall shape of the b that the civic experience should be about building up the shape of slices of the local demographic.

Just as civic engagement only remains accessible when all groups w included, the physical accessibility across the top of the building is sections that differ and form only part of the shape themselves. Thr differences, pathways are formed.

e full shape of the model.

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te interests. —Mark Twain

building, in the same way f governance from many

within the community are s maintained by including rough the combination of

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INTERLOCK

| Design Discovery, GSD, 2019

Circulation Graphite drawings based on the given word Interlock

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Abstraction · Scale · Iteration

These drawings were extruded as foam with Rockite. The depths of extrusions a create viable pathways through the neg

Fellow students models were used to explore how spaces connect and interact.

m cut shapes, placed in a mold, and poured and placement were carefully considered to gative space.

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Circulation

Abstraction ¡ Scale ¡ Iteration

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A frame was constructed out of foam core pieces designating a 1:24 scale model space.

The shape and function of everyday objects were reexam they were placed to form a circulation path from entry to exi

Plan 01

Plan 02

Plan 03

rawer liner

mined as it.

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Circulation Abstraction ¡ Scale ¡ Iteration

The final model explores my own idea of interlocked behavior: Spatial definitions mediated by the mechanism of architectural geometry.

These spaces explore the idea of surfaces that are not singularly defined as floor, or wall, or ceiling, but shift between these states through the mediation of the defined geometry. In this sense, the structure itself becomes the mechanism that interlocks these definitions, and the surface becomes a universally applicable paradigm to define the functionality of space.

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Torso, Plate 1, No. 56

First Marks

ARTWORK

| Bargue Drawing, Academy of Realist Art Boston, 2019 | Oil Painting

Otis

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Metal Pergola, Haneul Park, Seoul, South Korea

PHOTOGRAPHY

| The orthographic projection | of a moment

All pictures taken with Nikon D7000 (APSC sensor), 18-200mm zoom lens, manual mode.

Hummingbird Moth, Haneul Park, Soeul, South Korea

Mountain Dog at the Beach, Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, MA

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Geometric Cascade, Gyeongbokgung, Soeul, South Korea

Smooth Waters, Cheonggyecheon, Soeul, South Korea

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Roof joints, Hachimangu Shrine, Kamakura, Japan

Look to the Heavens, Coro, Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, Spain

Curved Handrail, North Bank Bridge, Cambridge, MA

Morning Light, Door Detail, Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, Spain

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Infinite Horizon, Near PadrĂŁo dos Descobrimentos, Lisbon, Portugal